Around this time four years ago, while I was wading through the sudden gush of sewage and horror on the internet, I stumbled across some...

I keep hearing about how close we are to civil war. That’s wrong. We’re not close. We’re in it. It’s a cold civil war, but it will turn...

I see the post-RNC convention poll bounce, I read the miles of raging, patently insane comments on the Facebook pages of radical right...

An old man walks to a podium in a silent room. There are no crowds. There is no applause. The nation he loves has been reduced to this:...

I swear social media is some kind of malicious worldwide experiment to kill people’s ability to feel joy. I experience the following...

Impeachment is the right course of action, it is long overdue, and I’m happy to see it start. This guy literally walked into the office...

Look at this shit. These people are fucking idiots. Do they think that removing this shit from their site is going to somehow prevent us...

Children of a Broken Sky is currently featured on a video blog featuring “suspenseful books with religious elements.” Kinda cool! Take a...

Confession time: For the last five months or so, a few false starts notwithstanding, I haven’t really been writing. I would say it was a...

You know those nights where you’re walking up the street with your wife and the tornado siren goes off? When the storm whips up and you...

Note: I am not flinching from Game of Thrones spoilers in this post. The spoilers range from the start of the series to the end, and...

Did you watch the Democratic Town Halls on CNN earlier this week? As I thought might happen after seeing some of these candidates on a...

I became an atheist in 2011 while writing my first novel, Alex.  I went through the “angry atheist” phase, wherein I realized precisely...

This is a thank you post, so I’m going to say that first. To everyone who has ever left me a good Amazon review, who has ever emailed or...

When I hear that Apple is worth one trillion dollars it makes me want to scream. That is the kind of money that could buy everyone an...

Sometimes two things that feel contradictory can actually be true at the same time. Recognizing this, I think, is one of the ways we can...

I think I just figured out why it can be so incredibly hard to start writing in the morning. See, when I’m on a roll or on a tangible...

Excuse me while I nerd out hard for a second. So it’s a couple years old, but there is a ridiculous video making the rounds today of a...

My daughter told me existence was too big for her. She is ten years old and is overwhelmed by the inevitability of death, the seeming...

The election was two weeks ago tomorrow, and I think I’m finally coming to realize how I feel about it. The constant, vise-like pressure...