by sumac | Mar 27, 2016 | Institutional Apologies
A wedding was held at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. During picture-taking, the bride’s sister stepped away to nurse her baby. With her breasts. History shows we can’t have that! As Emily Locke was breastfeeding her 9-month-old,...
by sumac | Jan 25, 2016 | True Crime Apologies
On the subject of an upcoming Black Lives Matter march scheduled for Martin Luther King Day in St. Paul, MN, someone who called himself “JM Roth” posted on Facebook. JM Roth had advice for people who were inconvenienced. “Run them over. Keep traffic flowing and...
by sumac | Aug 3, 2015 | Corporate Apologies, Religious Apologies
A Tesco market in Liverpool Street, London, is located near a large mosque. Exquisitely sensitive to customers’ needs, they of course were delighted to put up a Pringles display of handy foods with which Muslim customers might break a Ramadan fast. Including...
by sumac | Jun 1, 2015 | Personal Apologies, Political Apologies
A public high school in Cranston, Rhode Island, had a big banner hanging in the auditorium, with an official school prayer on it. The school’s first class (1959) had been told to create it. The prayer would have been uncontroversial and unexciting (“Help us to...
by snarly | Feb 9, 2015 | Corporate Apologies, Institutional Apologies, Personal Apologies
Here’s an old apology story with an update. Remember when Facebook threw that “Hey, [your name], here’s what your year looked like!” party that showed up in your timeline shortly before New Year’s Eve? Most had the caption:...
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