SorryWatch Reads: Only in Tokyo

SorryWatch Reads: Only in Tokyo

by | Mar 29, 2013 | Artistic apologies

I had a lovely escapist time reading Fallen Angel, the latest “Only in Tokyo” murder mystery. It pleasingly entwines police procedural and (literally) star-crossed love with cool information about the Tokyo host club scene and other amazing things that happen after I...
Oh Heil, not again

Oh Heil, not again

by | Mar 22, 2013 | Sports Apologies, Youth apologizes

In Athens, Greece, a 20-year-old soccer player for AEK Athens made a winning goal in a league game against Veria. Pleased, he raced to the sidelines, pulling off his shirt as he ran, faced the crowd, and snapped into a Nazi salute. What? A Nazi salute?...
Sorry, I thought you were pregnant

Sorry, I thought you were pregnant

by | Mar 15, 2013 | Youth apologizes

In Chapter 16 of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Kidnapped, our hero David Balfour asks the skipper of a ferryboat if he knows where to find the fugitive Alan Breck, and tries to give him a shilling. The skipper, Neil Roy, pulls away. “I am very much...
The Smog of War

The Smog of War

by | Mar 12, 2013 | Political Apologies

Ed Orcutt is a Republican in the Washington state House of Representatives. Okay so far. He says we don’t need more taxes. A familiar point of view. But there’s one tax he likes the sound of – a tax on bicycles. Lots of bikers would argue against that, but...

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