by sumac | Oct 22, 2013 | Corporate Apologies
Earlier in October, the USDA figured out where people were getting a nasty kind of salmonella. It’s resistant to many antibiotics. So far, 338 cases have been reported, and 40% of those people had to be hospitalized. It’s called Salmonella Heidelberg. They...
by sumac | Oct 17, 2013 | Media Apologies, Scientific apologies
Scientific American has many blogs in various scientific fields. One is The Urban Scientist, by Danielle N. Lee, a biologist specializing in the excellent fields of animal behavior, mammalogy, and urban ecology. She has blogged about her fieldwork in Tanzania with...
by sumac | Oct 8, 2013 | Institutional Apologies, Media Apologies, True Crime Apologies
On December 17th, 2010, Joanna Yeates disappeared. She was a 25-year-old landscape architect in Bristol, UK. Her absence was discovered on the 19th, when her boyfriend returned from a weekend away and noticed that the car hadn’t been moved and the cat...
by sumac | Oct 7, 2013 | Media Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Fox News Network is alternating between interpreting the current government shutdown as a lovely “slimdown” and as President Obama tormenting the people of the United States. They’re not treating it as anything the Republican Party has any responsibility for. In...
by sumac | Oct 4, 2013 | Personal Apologies
Long-awaited vacation. Overnight flight, US to Europe. Every seat taken. The adventure begins. A man I shall call Mr. Sumac stands to let another passenger take an assigned seat next to him. This passenger, a man I call Typhoid Cretin, says (to the best of Mr....