Hey, watch it!

Hey, watch it!

by | Oct 30, 2015 | Personal Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology

Columbus Circle station, early summer, bench. Young black guy, cool hipsterish clothes, large backpack, amusingly be-patched (does he really belong to Lehigh Valley Police Revolver League?), subtly spray-painted (faint black shading on light khaki), iPod, iPhone....
Darwin sorry not sorry?

Darwin sorry not sorry?

by | Oct 21, 2015 | Historical Apologies, Religious Apologies

In 1880, when Charles Darwin was 71, he got a letter asking if he was a Christian. The letter-writer, worrywart F. A. McDermott, fussed, “If I am to have the pleasure of reading your books, I must feel that at the end I shall not have lost my faith in the New...
Was there a polar bear in the taxi?

Was there a polar bear in the taxi?

by | Oct 14, 2015 | Personal Apologies

Middle of the night, there you are in an Antarctic gale, thirty feet above the deck of your sailboat, mast swinging wildly, trying to attach a new halyard because the previous one snapped off. Probably because the only other person on the sailboat, who came on as crew...
Let bygones be bygones? NOT SO FAST.

Let bygones be bygones? NOT SO FAST.

by | Oct 8, 2015 | Historical Apologies

Eliza Hamilton, widow of Alexander Hamilton, had come to visit her daughter in D.C. She was chilling in the back yard with her teenaged nephew when a maid brought James Monroe’s card. (I am guessing this maid was an employee, as the Hamiltons were strongly...
Sorry for my 49% of what went wrong

Sorry for my 49% of what went wrong

by | Sep 29, 2015 | The Mechanics of Apology

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., went on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Lots of iPhone jokes. Asked about the latest Steve Jobs movie, he said he hadn’t seen any of them, but “I think that a lot of people are trying to be opportunistic, and I hate this;...

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