The Facebook post is about the slaughtered children in Texas today, and a Democratic Senate candidate going on the air to demand action....

I think when you create a work of art, it belongs to the human race. I don’t mean from a legal perspective – I’m not talking about...

A friend of mine announced today that he has pancreatic cancer and is in hospice. And in that bombshell of a sentence, the word I debated...

I knew going in to Black Panther that it would probably be good. The reviews were roundly positive and it was making a lot of money...

I hear a lot about these Parkland kids that are standing up for themselves in the face of both the horrific gun massacre that slaughtered...

One of these times it’s going to be my kids. I’m going to hear the sirens and be choked by sick dread. I’m going to check the news and...

I coached policy debate for about ten years, and in policy debate we had a thing called a “perceptual link.” That was a fancy term for...

Just drop your tribe for a second. Drop your political affiliations. It’s just you in the void. Do you think it’s a good idea to let the...

Couple big writing updates: 1) It’s been awhile since I posted an update on my current project, A Season of Rendings. I have been busting...

“Sea level rise” is such an innocuous phrase. It sounds like the coming in of the tide, like it will creep up on us slowly. Like we’ll be...

Twin Peaks: The Return is over. I didn’t think it could affect me like it used to. I thought I was older and more grounded now, and...

Trump spoke out against white supremacy today. He gave a speech calling them “repugnant” and referred to them by name – the KKK, the...

We wake up in a new America today. We wake up in an America where violent terrorists roam the streets flying Nazi flags. This is not...

Let me tell you a little secret about “transgender people.” It’s a two-part term. An adjective and a noun, and I’d like to talk about...

“How did the universe begin?” That’s the question, right? Science tries to answer it. Religion tries to answer it. Where did we come...

All right, look. I know there’s been a lot of noise about the “Russia Thing.” I know if it seemed quite obvious to you months ago that...

Warning: Major spoilers for the original Twin Peaks and minor ones for the new series follow (but don’t worry, the identity of Laura...

Is religion to blame for the violent acts of its practitioners? Does Islam deserve to be held to account when terrorists act on its most...

We’ve all heard near-death experience stories. A very common experience seems to be “heading toward the light.” I don’t believe in an...

Let’s take stock. My country now has an Executive branch which lost the popular vote and is likely compromised by a foreign government –...