by sumac | Jan 3, 2014 | Political Apologies
Popular Florida politician Charlie Crist has changed his position on same-sex marriage. He’s sorry for his previous position. He can explain. He’d like to explain. When elected governor, Crist was a Republican. (He served 2007-2011.) In 2006 and 2008, he...
by sumac | Jan 1, 2014 | Celebrity Apologies
It’d be nice to start the new year by exalting another good apology. Let’s see. The hiphop band The Roots went on tour in Japan. Drummer Questlove kept up an effervescent beat of reactions. After a while people started calling him racist for Instagram...
by sumac | Dec 23, 2013 | Personal Apologies
Sometimes you think ‘I’ll just do one last tweet for the road!’ and sometimes you might want to think again. Justine Sacco, Communications Director at IAC, a big internet and media company, chose to tweet and fly. She was flying from London to South...
by sumac | Dec 20, 2013 | True Crime Apologies
Someone stole a life-sized statue of Jesus from a church in Toronto. This may have been easier than it sounds, since the statue was a) made of resin, b) outdoors, and c) not on a plinth but at ground level. Still, Rev. Maggie Helwig of the Church of St....
by sumac | Dec 17, 2013 | Political Apologies
When charged with six counts of wire fraud and two counts of obstruction of justice, George Van Til, a long-serving Democratic politician in Indiana, declared his innocence and swore to fight. When he got a chance, he rhapsodized about his career in public service –...
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