Starlight Essays

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Some Thoughts on Netanyahu's Speech to Congress

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- Liberal pundits in America have gone on at great length about how Netanyahu disrespected Obama. From what I've heard so far, he'...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Relevant Skills

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I think it's tragic that, in a culture as centered as ours is around video entertainment, when kids put on plays in school and study Sha...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Explaining Natural Selection to Believers in Intelligent Design

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Believers in intelligent design often argue with great passion and conviction that when an organism perfectly fits its environment or its ec...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Media Illusions

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The media that says the police are out of control and that you should rightly fear for your life any time you see a cop is the same media th...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

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In a sustainable agriculture forum I follow on Linkedin, a farmer questioned whether food deserts actually exist and suggested that the prob...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Remembering the Louisiana Ambush

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A Facebook friend recently posed the following challenge: Name 1 white victim of violence who's been publicly degraded by 1000's ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

For, Because, and Over: the misattribution of motive

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Tim walked into a grocery store and picked up a loaf of bread. When he paid for it, the cashier forgot to say, "You saved 24 cents toda...
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Wayne A. Shingler
Wayne is an urban farmer and local food activist in Columbus, Ohio, who writes on a variety of topics including resiliency, self-reliance, social justice, localization, and political issues. (You can read his farm blog at http://frijolitofarm.com/blog/, or his other blog, Relearning Humanity, at https://relearninghumanity.wordpress.com/. )

Before going into farming, Wayne worked as a police officer, security guard, handyman, landscaper, teaching assistant, fur trapper, woodcarver, conveyor mechanic, Wal-Mart drone, food service worker, and Army Reservist, among other things. As Robert A. Heinlein said, "Specialization is for insects."

Wayne is married to Mayda, an independent web designer (unlimitedmedia.com). They have two young children together, Noah and Amalie. Wayne also has two grown children from a previous marriage.
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