by sumac | Oct 7, 2016 | Celebrity Apologies, Other Apologies, Political Apologies
I was contentedly composing a post about poetry and plums. Suddenly Twitter exploded and there was slime flying everywhere. A tape from 2005 had just been released by The Washington Post. In it, radio/TV host Billy Bush was buttering up Donald Trump on the way to the...
by sumac | Aug 20, 2016 | Other Apologies
Maybe headline writers are starting to catch on to the difference between apologies and hand-waving about “regrets.” With Donald Trump’s help. Just starting to. Trump’s recent remarks about unspecified regrets for unspecified remarks were not headlined an...
by snarly | Jul 25, 2016 | Other Apologies
Has Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz apologized for the emails (released by Wikileaks) that have embarrassed the Clinton campaign and the DNC? I don’t think so, and alas, I have no humungous team of interns to make sure. (Though if I...
by snarly | May 31, 2016 | Other Apologies
We’ve been known to say that a bad apology is in many ways worse than no apology, and that if you don’t think you’re wrong, don’t offer a half-assed apology — one that doesn’t truly acknowledge wrongdoing. BUT. This quote is...
by snarly | May 3, 2016 | Other Apologies
Hi, SorryWatchers! This post may be unsafe for work! Recently the white author of a romance novel came under fire on social media for using the terms “Dark Chocolate Love Monkey” and “Coffee-Colored Big-Dicked Servant of Lust” in her book....
by snarly | Sep 27, 2015 | Other Apologies
Police in the town on North Swindon, in the county of Wiltshire in Southwest England, have apologized for repeatedly turning on their sirens in a residential neighborhood. The officers were trying to settle a debate among four-year-olds about whether police sirens go...