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...
by snarly | Jun 24, 2015 | Other Apologies
Under One Small Star My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.My apologies to necessity if I’m mistaken, after all.Please, don’t be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade.My apologies to time for all the...
by snarly | Jun 23, 2015 | Other Apologies
Interesting piece on Lifehacker (Gawker’s site about “living better in the digital age”) about Christian counselors Gary Chapman and Jennifer M. Thomas’s “5 Apology Languages.” It’s a sequel to Chapman’s popular 5 Love...
by snarly | Feb 20, 2015 | Other Apologies
Warning: Racism and lynching imagery ahead. Thanks to reader Kali for pointing this one out. According to the racial justice site Colorlines, which I believe broke the story, a graphic design company called Seasalt & Co. posted the following image on its FB page....
by sumac | Sep 18, 2014 | Other Apologies
Some of the most interesting stories come from the bats mailing list. This one is out of Southeast Arizona, a biodiversity hotspot south and east of Tucson. It’s a birding Mecca, a naturalist’s paradise. I went looking for birds, but it also bubbles with...
by snarly | Aug 26, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Other Apologies
Rainbow Rowell is best known for her young adult novels, Eleanor & Park (one of the best YA novels I have ever read) and Fangirl (which many people like even more than Eleanor & Park, and which my 12-year-old daughter will kill me soon for not having read). I...