by sumac | Oct 24, 2014 | Corporate Apologies
It was a great get. The CEO of Microsoft agreed to speak at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference as their first male plenary speaker. He ran around talking to people, and then did an onstage interview. This was not a hostile interview, not a...
by sumac | Aug 16, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Scientific apologies
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and plays a neurosurgeon on TV. That is, he’s the chief medical correspondent at CNN. He’s a bestselling author (both fiction and nonfiction) won an Emmy, and has been discussed (in 2009) as a possible Surgeon General....
by sumac | Jun 26, 2013 | Celebrity Apologies, Corporate Apologies
This Paula Deen thing is a red-hot mess. It’s a red-hot mess rolled in powdered sugar, deep-fried, and topped with bourbon-scented whipped cream. Or take two and clap a bacon cheeseburger in between. It started with a lawsuit brought by the manager of a...