by sumac | Oct 27, 2014 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Religious Apologies
SorryWatch seeks to understand and illuminate the apology traditions of many cultures and faiths. We were tipped off to a clear and beautiful example from Archdruid Eileen of the Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley. The Archdruid takes on the tricky rhetoric of a “sorry...
by sumac | Oct 24, 2014 | Corporate Apologies
It was a great get. The CEO of Microsoft agreed to speak at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference as their first male plenary speaker. He ran around talking to people, and then did an onstage interview. This was not a hostile interview, not a...
by sumac | Oct 17, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
An August evening in a small public park in San Francisco’s Mission District. Neighborhood kids playing soccer. A group showed up, saying they had reserved the field for an hour, from 7 till 8pm. They looked like prosperous white guys, an impression their...
by sumac | Oct 10, 2014 | Institutional Apologies
Okra. (Abelmoschus esculentus.) Interesting question – Actually, I DON’T know what happens if you smoke it. There was a helicopter hovering low above Dwayne Perry’s house. Really low. It woke him up, and then there were sheriff’s deputies at the...
by sumac | Oct 7, 2014 | Political Apologies, True Crime Apologies
Back in 2012 Mark Fuller, a U.S. District Court judge in Alabama, and Lisa Boyd Fuller were divorcing. Lisa Boyd Fuller had some things she wanted mentioned, like domestic violence, substance abuse, drunk driving, and affairs, particularly one with his court’s...
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