by sumac | Nov 22, 2017 | Historical Apologies, Personal Apologies
In one of those “One Hundred Years Ago” columns newspapers sometimes run, SorryWatch came across an interesting 1917 account of a soldier, Thomas J. Ryan, whose mother was having a hard time letting go. Ryan was stationed at the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco....
by sumac | Jun 18, 2015 | Media Apologies
There was a birthday party in Berkeley, California. Thirteen guests were out on the fourth-floor balcony when its supports suddenly snapped. It collapsed onto the balcony below, pitching people onto the sidewalk 50 feet down. Four people were killed instantly. Two...
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 sumac | Oct 22, 2013 | Corporate Apologies
Earlier in October, the USDA figured out where people were getting a nasty kind of salmonella. It’s resistant to many antibiotics. So far, 338 cases have been reported, and 40% of those people had to be hospitalized. It’s called Salmonella Heidelberg. They...
by sumac | Nov 8, 2012 | True Crime Apologies
After the Giants won the 2012 World Series on October 29th, many citizens went out into the streets of San Francisco to whoop and dance and chant and high-five one another. One man also expressed his excitement by smashing in the windshield of a city bus with a metal...
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