by snarly | Apr 25, 2013 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
If you are a young American gentleman by the name of Nathan Hale, you could choose to emulate your namesake and get hanged by the British for spying, which would suck, or you could grow up to write and illustrate children’s history books, which is probably a...
by snarly | Apr 22, 2013 | Political Apologies
On the heels of Representative Pete Hansen’s charming apologies for referring to women as vaginas (or rather, “vagina’s,” since he’s as awesome at grammar as he is at non-misogyny), and former Governor Mark Sanford’s “apology...
by snarly | Apr 20, 2013 | Media Apologies
The New York Post’s Boston Marathon coverage was heinous. It ID’d the wrong men — two dark-skinned men, shocker — as the possible bombers, on the front page, causing these innocents fathomless pain and stress. And the the Post refused to back...
by snarly | Apr 18, 2013 | Historical Apologies, Political Apologies
We’ve had a lot of crappy apologies on the site lately. Here’s an apology that’s very, very good…which is itself good because what it’s apologizing for is utterly horrific. You probably know about the Tuskegee Experiment. In 1932, 600...
by snarly | Apr 12, 2013 | Apology Essentials, The Mechanics of Apology
Thank you, everyone who emailed, Facebooked and Tweeted us the NPR story on the psychological benefits of NOT apologizing. As is so often the case, the study in question is far more nuanced than the grabby headline (“Why Not Apologizing Makes You Feel...
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