The Internet is a wild and wonderful place sometimes.

I tend to visit sites that send visitors to this site (at least the ones that are clearly not referral spam). So from a referral from dogpile, one of the many Internet search engines, I clicked a link to one of the other results. Very interesting, almost dictionary-like, definition of the word apology.

The difference between a Non-Apology and a True Apology

“A partial apology is a statement that includes the part of the apology that expresses sympathy without the part that accepts any responsibility.”

George Bush certainly knows the difference. Bush told the King of Jordan once that he was “sorry for the humiliations suffered by the Iraqi prisoners and the humiliations suffered by their families”. Sympathy without responsibility. I like that definition.