by snarly | Dec 26, 2013 | Historical Apologies, Personal Apologies
On Monday, Queen Elizabeth issued a royal pardon to Alan Turing, aka the father of modern computing. Turing was a mathematician whose work as a codebreaker during World War II saved the lives of countless British citizens. But he was also a gay man in an inhospitable...
by snarly | Nov 25, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Historical Apologies
I am addicted, hardcore, to the Fox show Sleepy Hollow. It is utterly insane. Ichabod Crane is a former Revolutionary War soldier who wakes up in modern-day Sleepy Hollow and fights demons and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (one is headless, btw) with a...
by snarly | Nov 5, 2013 | Corporate Apologies, Historical Apologies, Other Apologies
Sorry we linked our decadent spa treatments with that time your Torahs and businesses were set on fire and your people got killed and whatnot! The German spa Kristall Sauna Wellnesspark apologized for running an ad for a “long, romantic Kristallnacht,” scheduled for...
by snarly | Oct 31, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Historical Apologies, Media Apologies
77 years ago today, Welles apologized for the War of the Worlds radio broadcast that terrified a nation. Facing a scrum of angry reporters, he explained, “You must realize when I left the broadcast last night I went into dress rehearsal for a play that’s...
by snarly | Jul 26, 2013 | Corporate Apologies, Historical Apologies
Most of us Hebraic types know that carmaker Henry Ford was not our biggest fan. He published dozens of booklets and newspaper articles about The Jewish Menace. But then he apologized! Please read this statement he released in 1927, reprinted at the Berman Jewish...
by snarly | Apr 25, 2013 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
If you are a young American gentleman by the name of Nathan Hale, you could choose to emulate your namesake and get hanged by the British for spying, which would suck, or you could grow up to write and illustrate children’s history books, which is probably a...