by sumac | Jul 14, 2018 | The Mechanics of Apology
If you try to convince your parents an excellent family vacation would be going to the far north to see the caribou migration, and they say “We’ll see,” you might suspect that to mean “no.” What if you tell a sibling your parents said “We’ll see,” so maybe...
by sumac | Oct 7, 2016 | Celebrity Apologies, Other Apologies, Political Apologies
I was contentedly composing a post about poetry and plums. Suddenly Twitter exploded and there was slime flying everywhere. A tape from 2005 had just been released by The Washington Post. In it, radio/TV host Billy Bush was buttering up Donald Trump on the way to the...
by sumac | Oct 27, 2014 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Religious Apologies
SorryWatch seeks to understand and illuminate the apology traditions of many cultures and faiths. We were tipped off to a clear and beautiful example from Archdruid Eileen of the Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley. The Archdruid takes on the tricky rhetoric of a “sorry...
by sumac | Jun 20, 2013 | Religious Apologies
For nearly 40 years the Christian ministry organization Exodus International has been preaching that homosexuals can, and should, change. Change from being gay. Exodus was an umbrella organization for 100- 200 others that pushed the same claim, including places that...
by sumac | Nov 19, 2012 | Apology Essentials, The Mechanics of Apology
A poisoned apology is an apology wrapped around an insult, like a cupcake with mud filling. People don’t want to accept the apology, because they don’t want to accept the insult that goes with it. “I apologize for kicking you, but you were so damned...
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