I dunno, I've never considered accepting an apology as offering forgiveness or redemption. I've always treated it more as you accepting the possibility that the person is genuinely remorseful for what they did.

Maybe the issue is I have a different idea of what "accepting an apology" means. Accepting an apology has never meant to me the actual belief that someone has changed on the inside. It means that you are willing to consider it a possibility and let them demonstrate that they have over time.

I don't think you could get an hour long episode out of a premise as basic as "I'm a cop so I can get away with murder because I am a cop."

Eh... yeah it is. Accepting an apology is about accepting the idea that the person seems to be genuinely remorseful and is willing to change.

Oh, puh-leeze. Quit setting up straw men.

Okay. Any answer to the second question, or do you admit that you're being unreasonable?

Yep. I even told her SIL how awful it would be the last time they Skype'd and they still want to do it.

Considering that as a 7 week old he still sleeps 15-16 hours a day without sleeping all the way through the night even if I interacted with him every moment he was awake there'd still be a whole lot of time left in the day. I imagine my wife and sister in law are going to be gone for 12+ hours if only because they'll…

So someone apologizes for making a racist remark with an actual apology instead of the typical non-apology bullshit we see, and he makes something of a gesture to help an organization that promotes diversity, and your response is that he can take it and shove it?

An apology where the person apologizes for what they said instead of for the fact that someone was offended by what they said?

My sister-in-law and niece are coming to town next week, and for some inexplicable reason my wife has planned a bunch of events to go do for fun on that Black Friday, including a trip to a play land style place that is in one of the biggest malls in the Dallas / Fort Worth area. I reminded her how awful traffic would…

Blerg. I literally just decided to start buying stuff over PSN again and put my credit card information on file a few weeks ago. My password is strong and I have fraud protection but ... ack, what a pain.

It sure seems like he is a master manipulator who understood exactly how to pick vulnerable women who he could make feel ashamed and afraid after he violated them.

I believe it.

Whew, that's good to know, I always knew you were one of the good ones.

My wife was the same way. Go swimming? Do anything without major discomfort?

Oh, this could be a fun game.

It is interesting. ABC's executives really had a meeting about this.

Well, that was pathetic, but unsurprising.

Hell, I didn't take any of these non-sense courses where they ostensibly teach you "critical thinking" and my parents still refused to pay for my schooling.