First Ever International Accountability Day!

I love twitter. Twitter is a website that everyone should check out at some point, I won't explain now. But I love twitter because randomly I came across three total strangers on the public feed who posted the three following stories.

"Tribune Files For Bankruptcy Protection"
"GM Says it Disappointed and Betrayed Consumers"
"Catholics and Muslims to Fight Terror and Defend Faith"

So thank you, total strangers on the Internet, for helping me procrastinate and have something to blog about, especially because the "World Peace and a Pony" series is at a standstill right now. I promise it will resolve itself. Spoiler alert: I'm leaning towards a happy ending.


Anyhow, I am particularly moved by those headlines because I think they each represent different attempts to say the following:

"I guess we f***ed up a bit there."
Or, "I took the cookies from the cookie jar."

Or, in other words, "My bad."

I am particularly surprised by the last two headlines, both from Reuters, if you care to look them up.

Starting with the Catholic/Muslim deal.

The initiative, called Common Word, is an effort backed by the Pope and many Vatican officials as well as Muslim leaders.

This is an attempt to move on from something I personally cannot stand- Hypocrisy in the name of some deity. If your god tells you not to kill people, or something like that, then it's a pretty good idea to not do that. That's all.

And now the GM deal.

I read somewhere recently that GM is currently outperforming the other two Big 3 companies. For them to come forward and make a public announcement is very mature. Maybe they can make some progress while Ford and Chrysler are still bickering in the playpen, and hopefully they'll balance their checkbooks a little better in the future.

You can find those stories on Reuters if you care to look them up.