Starlight Essays

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Black America: You Are More Likely to Be Struck by Lightning Than to Be Shot by Police While You're Unarmed

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It's bad enough that I stayed up 'til 5:00 a.m. to write this. I'll get around to linking my sources later. Proofreading, too. M...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Bernie Has Not Given Up, and He Won California

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I think it should be pointed out that since Tuesday (well, since Monday, actually) there have been a lot of misleading headlines out there g...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Stronghold Economics

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Today I heard a story on the radio about a local foundry shutting down. They interviewed the workers. They were all very unhappy about i...
Monday, September 14, 2015

How to Lie With Statistics

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I recently saw an article from Mother Jones, a publication not known for its impartiality, titled " A Majority of Cop Killers Have Been...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

A Little Perspective

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When a police officer shoots a suspect, it's often the case that the wounded suspect is then handcuffed and left to lie bleeding on the ...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Why Mass Shootings Aren't a Problem

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     Even aside from people who want to get rid of guns entirely, there are a great many people who rightly want to keep guns out of the han...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Omnivorous Rex

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I recently encountered a woman on Facebook asking others how she was to come to grips with the idea of killing animals for meat. She said, ...
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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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