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No, You Apologize!

October 27th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Supreme Court

As a student and critic of the art of public apologies, it’s always fun for me to have a new twist on the subject.  Such as the completely unwarranted, out-of-the-blue, 20-years-after-the-fact demand for an apology from the woman your husband sexually harassed.  That’s the new tactic invented by Virginia Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas and [...]

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I Apologize for Giving Credit to Republicans

June 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I may have spoken too soon in giving the Republican leadership credit for their response to Rep. Joe Barton’s comments.  The actual statement put out by the House Republican leaders raises eyebrows in some of its word choice: “The oil spill in the Gulf is this nation’s largest natural disaster and stopping the leak and [...]

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Sorry I Was Sorry

June 17th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Politics

As I’ve written previously on this blog, I have a particular interest in the quality of public apologies.  Today’s events surrounding Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX, of course) present two interesting questions:  1) How should we react to an apology that is sincere and unqualified, but concerns something that absolutely should not be apologized for?;  and [...]

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Happy Bigotry Day

April 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS, Immigration, Politics

Happy Bigotry Day, everyone! Today we should all follow in the lead of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and justifiably call someone a bigot. In case you haven’t heard, Brown got caught calling a British woman named Gillian Duffy a bigot when he didn’t realize his microphone was still on. Several things are funny/infuriating about [...]

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All Apologies

February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Politics, Sports

This is a post that could easily be recycled every month or so whenever some famous person sticks his her foot and his or her mouth and then botches his or her apology.  (And, given my recent inability to get myself to post more than once every other month, I probably need to write more [...]

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