by snarly | Jan 30, 2014 | Academic apologies
On Tuesday, 40 kids among the 500+ students at Uintah Elementary School in Salt Lake City had their lunches taken away and thrown out. This was ordered by a district Child Nutrition Manager (HA), because the kids’ parents had balances due on school lunch...
by sumac | Jan 30, 2014 | Political Apologies
Billionaire businessman Tom Perkins wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal. He used an attention-grabbing comparison. “…I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its ‘one percent,’ namely its Jews, to the...
by snarly | Jan 28, 2014 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies, Personal Apologies
Courtesy of the marvelous Brain Pickings: My dear Annie: This is indeed dreadful. You have no idea of the grief I am in while I write. I am obliged to use an umbrella to keep the tears from running down on to the paper. Go there to read the whole thing, apologizing to...
by snarly | Jan 22, 2014 | Apology Essentials, Media Apologies, Sports Apologies
SorryWatch was down for techie reasons unclear to your tech-clueless hosts. It’s back now. So here are a couple of news stories we coulda-shoulda-woulda weighed in on earlier. 1. The case of Lisa Bonchek Adams, Twitter and the Kellers. The must-read summary is...
by sumac | Jan 19, 2014 | True Crime Apologies
Evening in Lihue, on Kaua’i. A truck comes out of nowhere. After the wreck, Tania Perneel was a little confused. She thought the guy helping her was the driver that had hit her car. She noticed a blue truck driving away – even noticed its pink bumper sticker –...