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 sumac | Apr 5, 2015 | Sports Apologies
A young phenom, discovered playing football, famous for playing baseball, but really wants to play basketball. What do you call the kid? Not “slut.” Mo’ne Davis is the athletic prodigy from South Philly. (Pronounced Moe-nay.) Coach Steve Bandura discovered the...
by sumac | Feb 22, 2015 | Artistic apologies, Bropology, Celebrity Apologies
Rebecca Mock is an illustrator. You can see her work on her website. I love “A Year in Trees”, an animation she did for the NY Times Sunday Review. I bet they paid her. The “Aftershocks” is cool, and a little alarming. She did that for Medium.com. I bet they paid her....
by sumac | Feb 5, 2015 | Media Apologies
In 2003, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was reporting on-scene from Iraq. He was in a convoy of Chinook helicopters on a supply run over desert west of Baghdad when one of them was struck by rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and small-arms fire. Well, no,...