by snarly | Dec 7, 2020 | Political Apologies
To my fellow Americans: I owe you an apology. When I sent that sternly worded tweet telling you to stay home because you don’t need to get your roots done, I did not actually send it from my stylist’s chair. That is a scurrilous rumor and I apologize that you...
by sumac | Nov 17, 2015 | Historical Apologies
SorryWatch hopes it will not give reason to apologize because one of its members (Sumac) is off to Antarctica for several months, under the auspices of the NSF and the US Antarctic Program. But SorryWatch is not worried yet. At Palmer Station, Sumac will have email...
by sumac | Mar 22, 2015 | Religious Apologies
The Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption, in San Francisco, aka St Mary’s Cathedral, is a piece of 1960s architecture. It’s interesting geometrically, as the cross section changes from a square to a cross as the roof rises. Most photos focus on the roof,...
by sumac | Oct 17, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
An August evening in a small public park in San Francisco’s Mission District. Neighborhood kids playing soccer. A group showed up, saying they had reserved the field for an hour, from 7 till 8pm. They looked like prosperous white guys, an impression their...
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...