Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?

Perhaps people hate because it's more difficult to love. It also takes more courage to do the latter.

One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.

Given the multiple crises we are living through, investigative journalism is all the more important.

My first language is Gaelic.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'