It's been a sorry year
Date: March 1st 2010
It's been a sorry year
It’s been a sorry year so far, that’s for sure. Only two months into 2010 and we’ve seen enough public apologies to last a decade.
Mark McGwire, Tiger Woods, Akio Toyoda, Harry Reid, John Edwards… seems like there’s a couple sorry spectacles every week.
And the apologies haven’t been about trivial stuff. They’ve been dramatic public humiliations about important issues. Businessmen, politicians (of course politicians, since they’re generally the sorriest kind of people), sports figures, scientists, and even countries have marched onto the stage to take a turn at wallowing in shame.
It’s a little bit sickening, because most of the apologies are insincere, unnecessary, misdirected, and/or insufficient.
Maybe the most unnecessary one of all happened this past Friday at the Vancouver Winter Olympics (a veritable fount of public apologies) when the Canadian women’s hockey team apologized for celebrating their gold medal...
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