by snarly | Jan 26, 2020 | Bropology, Sports Apologies, Youth apologizes
The bicep-enabled young man with the microphone is Charlie, son of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall, a walk-on player at Northwestern. He is amusing. But let us take this opportunity to note that his teammate Nathan Taphorn’s unsolicited apology for failing to...
by snarly | Nov 21, 2019 | Artistic apologies, Youth apologizes
Behold an illustration from the brilliant Catherine Newman’s forthcoming children’s book (for kids 10 to 14), How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You’re Grown Up. The book is basically a funny and readable...
by snarly | Nov 17, 2019 | Artistic apologies, Youth apologizes
Young Adult literature seems to exist in a constant state of social media drama! Much like young adults! Remember that author who literally stalked a reader who gave her novel a bad review on Goodreads? She then turned the act of stalking into a book deal. Or maybe...
by sumac | Nov 12, 2019 | Personal Apologies, Youth apologizes
Why do people collect souvenirs? We’re not sure, but we’ve felt that mysterious urge. Surely the important thing is the experience and the memory, not an object? And yet… If you buy a cheerful ashtray in Sicily to support their hand-painted pottery...
by snarly | Apr 11, 2019 | Academic apologies, Celebrity Apologies, Media Apologies, Youth apologizes
Does an apology erase the past? Of course not. But an apology still has value. A good one can help people who are hurt and angry feel better. That’s not nothing. The word “heal” is wildly overused (often by people who apologize badly, who use the...
by snarly | Jan 22, 2019 | Academic apologies, Religious Apologies, Youth apologizes
Belated Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019 good wishes from SorryWatch! Perhaps you’ve seen the video going around social media (and written about in Saturday’s New York Post and Daily News) depicting three white female students at Brooklyn’s elite...
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