by sumac | Jun 5, 2013 | Institutional Apologies
In November 2012, some Half Moon Bay residents reported cats under their porch. Mountain lion-type cats. Cougars. Pumas. Panthers. Catamounts. (The different names have political implications. I’ll try to use them randomly.) Sheriffs confirmed cats under the...
by sumac | May 31, 2013 | Corporate Apologies
Ashley Bays took her 2 ½ year old, Grayson with her when she went to the M-Spa salon in Portage, Michigan. She wanted Grayson to have a haircut, as he had before. Grayson, who’s autistic, sat in her lap. When the electric clipper began to buzz, he clung to his...
by sumac | May 27, 2013 | Personal Apologies
Emma Way was apparently annoyed by the happy bike riders in the road taking part in the 100-mile Boudicca Sportive event. But it wasn’t deliberate when she knocked one of them off his bike and into a hedge when her car’s wing mirror struck his handlebar....
by sumac | May 25, 2013 | Corporate Apologies
Mokutanya, a Japanese restaurant in Burlingame, California, specializes in kushiyaki, food grilled on skewers. On May 16th they added an “exotic fare” offering two days a week. Including skewers of lion meat. ($70 a skewer.) They probably weren’t totally...
by sumac | May 24, 2013 | Sports Apologies
Golfers Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods haven’t been getting along for a while. Most recently, at the Players’ Championship in Florida, Garcia complained that Woods had caused a distraction when he was taking a shot. Woods pulled out a golf club, causing...