by sumac | Apr 15, 2021 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
There’s a letter from Edgar Allan Poe, now in the collection of the University of Virginia, which contains an evasive little apology. The 1842 letter is to J and HG Langley, publishers of the Democratic Review, for whom he’d written before. Poe, a...
by sumac | Feb 20, 2021 | Political Apologies
SorryWatch loves Texas. Thus it grieves and infuriates us to see so many absolutely foul elected officials failing their Texas constituents in a time of emergency. Tim Boyd was elected mayor of Colorado City, Texas. With a population for just over 4,000, it’s...
by sumac | Dec 21, 2020 | Institutional Apologies
Stanford Medicine (the university’s medical school and hospital) got 5,000 doses of COVID19 vaccine. Not enough for everybody – nowhere is there enough for everybody yet – but it was a great start. Stanford’s in Santa Clara County, where cases are soaring....
by sumac | Nov 23, 2020 | Institutional Apologies
SorryWatch pays close attention to words. We pursue matters like whether someone said she ‘was sorry,’ or said she ‘regrets what happened.’ What does it mean if he says he ‘takes full responsibility’ but also says he was...
by sumac | Oct 30, 2020 | Historical Apologies
Around 1910, a man who had recently become a grandfather learned that his grandchild was seriously ill and had to go to the hospital. His daughter, the child’s mother, was beside herself with worry, maybe close to a nervous breakdown. Although he was very busy,...
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