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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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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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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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