by sumac | Mar 6, 2016 | Corporate Apologies, Political Apologies
Lands’ End, respected purveyor of serviceable clothing, put out a fancy catalog. It contained an interview at which some people directed a fury campaign. The company apologized. The apology infuriated different people, generating another fury campaign. The...
by sumac | Feb 23, 2016 | Personal Apologies
We are entering a golden age of the police report, possibly led by the Arcata Eye’s justly famous example. Skimming a Lebanon, Oregon public record summary in search of apology, I got distracted by the pirate festival. Lebanon’s a small town on the South...
by sumac | Feb 3, 2016 | Political Apologies
A person running for president said something snide, and later said he was apologizing for it. Sounds good until you seek the apology. The candidate isn’t expressing regret, he’s piling insults higher. In an ugly self-serving tirade – understandably...
by sumac | Jan 25, 2016 | True Crime Apologies
On the subject of an upcoming Black Lives Matter march scheduled for Martin Luther King Day in St. Paul, MN, someone who called himself “JM Roth” posted on Facebook. JM Roth had advice for people who were inconvenienced. “Run them over. Keep traffic flowing and...
by sumac | Jan 12, 2016 | Political Apologies
We’ve gotten requests to do the apology/non-apology/semi-apology of Paul LePage, Governor of Maine. Non-apologies are a LePage specialty, as we’ll see. We try not to do non-apologies but there is also a despicable phony apology in the current mess, so...
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