There’s this weird expectation these days that if you are fortunate to make money doing something creative, you have to speak about it like it is a sacred heirloom. The writer can’t simply write. The painter can’t simply paint. The musician cannot simply make music. You apparently have to speak about it like it is a piece of your soul.

For some people, it is. For others, it’s just something they happen to be good at.

Vince Staples has a healthier view of work than many of the people criticizing him.

Well, Lindsay Clancy was sleep-deprived.

That's the new defense for Lindsay Clancy, the 36-year-old Massachusetts woman who brutally murdered her three children. They've dropped the postpartum depression angle—mostly because it's nonsense. In a sane world, we wouldn’t call that depression. We’d call it evil.