by snarly | Jan 20, 2013 | Media Apologies, Sports Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Thanks to transcripts of nights one and two of the Oprance Apology Spectacular provided by the BBC, we now have the tools to analyze fully whether the cyclist has apologized well. Let’s crunch the numbers! Eight uses of the word “sorry,” if...
by snarly | Jan 18, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Sports Apologies
Mary Elizabeth Williams quoted SorryWatch in today’s Salon piece about the Lance Armstrong Redemption Song ‘n’ Dance Show. Your faithful correspondents have not watched the performance yet. Though having read the transcript of Part 1, we can point...
by snarly | Jan 15, 2013 | Media Apologies
Remember when Kveller, the Jewish parenting web site, published a really trans-phobic, nasty story, and then (mirabile dictu) consulted with leaders from the LGBT community and pulled the piece and ran a thoughtful apology? We enjoyed that. Alas, two nastypants...
by snarly | Jan 14, 2013 | Youth apologizes
Unlike the calculating apology to the tooth fairy we ran a few weeks ago, this apology embraces its own crappiness. If you’re truly not sorry, and you don’t care about maintaining a relationship with the person you have OSTENSIBLY wronged (OSTENSIBLY!...
by snarly | Jan 7, 2013 | Sports Apologies
Unlike my esteemed co-blogger, I do not give a rat’s butt about baseball. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the game. As a child, I played Little League quite seriously (only girl on my team; in 1979 my mom sewed an E.R.A. patch on my hat, which did NOT...
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