by sumac | Dec 4, 2015 | Corporate Apologies
November 28th, 1979, an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight to Antarctica smashed into Mount Erebus, instantly killing everyone aboard. It was the first air disaster in New Zealand’s history and is still the worst. The sightseeing flights began in 1977. They were...
by sumac | Nov 28, 2015 | True Crime Apologies
Hugo Solano was killed by a violent teenager. Left behind were his wife Ana Solano and their two children. When the teenager, Juan Martin Garcia, was on trial Ana Solano was asked what sentence she thought he should get. She didn’t know what to say. She said she...
by sumac | Nov 17, 2015 | Historical Apologies
SorryWatch hopes it will not give reason to apologize because one of its members (Sumac) is off to Antarctica for several months, under the auspices of the NSF and the US Antarctic Program. But SorryWatch is not worried yet. At Palmer Station, Sumac will have email...
by sumac | Nov 12, 2015 | Political Apologies
Apparently Marco Rubio doesn’t show up at the Senate much. Me neither, but nobody elected me Senator. Rubio asked to be elected, so the fact that he doesn’t turn up much is noteworthy. Noteworthy? So noted! His opponents in the Republican presidential race...
by sumac | Nov 3, 2015 | The Mechanics of Apology, Youth apologizes
(It turns out Snarly and Sumac have slightly different apology approaches, as you’ll see.) Here at SorryWatch we are grieved and intrigued* to find that not everyone agrees about the goodness of good apologies. There are many reasons for this because, weirdly,...