by sumac | Aug 7, 2013 | True Crime Apologies
Someone stole a lawn ornament from a front yard in Newark, California. It was not hard to describe to Officer Jeff Neithercutt: a simple whirligig depicting a pig on a bicycle with spinning rainbow wheels, transporting a basket of corn. (Such as you can see here.) It...
by sumac | Aug 2, 2013 | True Crime Apologies
Last year the DEA busted a 4/20 party near San Diego, confiscated 18,000 hits of MDMA, and questioned 9 people. They arrested 7, and let one go. They told the last person, Daniel Chong, that they would release him too, in fact give him a ride home, and said, “Hang...
by sumac | Jul 31, 2013 | Artistic apologies, Corporate Apologies
Famous and famously famous author JK Rowling, richer than the Queen, having finished the Harry Potter series, moved on. She published a novel in 2012, The Casual Vacancy, which a New York Times reviewer called disappointing and dull. But Rowling did not call herself a...
by sumac | Jul 23, 2013 | Musical Apologies, Youth apologizes
A 2003 episode of This American Life had 20 very short stories, and the last story is apology-related and amazing. Told by Ira Glass, it’s from a performance at the Audy Home, the unofficial/historic name for the juvenile detention center in Chicago. The...
by sumac | Jul 19, 2013 | Political Apologies
Mike Pence, governor of Indiana, is a Republican who has made opposition to same-sex marriage an important part of his platform. On June 26th he posted a statement on his gubernatorial Facebook page expressing disappointment in the Supreme Court’s overturning...
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