by sumac | Jul 1, 2015 | True Crime Apologies, Youth apologizes
At Valle Verde Children’s Center, a day care center at Valle Verde Elementary School, the staff came in on a Monday morning and found their three rabbits were missing. The rabbits had been in a secure hutch, and the hutch was behind a chain-link fence. Yet they...
by sumac | Jun 29, 2015 | Religious Apologies, True Crime Apologies
We weren’t eager to cover Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s apology. The crime – the Boston Marathon bombing – was so terrible. We’re both against capital punishment. The whole business makes us queasy. But it seemed important to look at it. How can one apologize...
by sumac | Jun 22, 2015 | Media Apologies
As June 12 was turning into June 13, an angry guy drove to Dallas Police headquarters in a newly purchased (Ebay) armored van, put down a few pipe bombs, and opened fire at the front of the building. When pursued, he rammed a cop car, fled in his van, was...
by sumac | Jun 18, 2015 | Media Apologies
There was a birthday party in Berkeley, California. Thirteen guests were out on the fourth-floor balcony when its supports suddenly snapped. It collapsed onto the balcony below, pitching people onto the sidewalk 50 feet down. Four people were killed instantly. Two...
by sumac | Jun 11, 2015 | Scientific apologies
Tim Hunt is a biochemist, co-winner of a Nobel Prize in the Physiology or Medicine category (along with Leland Hartwell and Paul Nurse). The prize was for work elucidating how proteins like cyclins control cell division. Sounds like he can be a smart person when he...
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