Starlight Essays

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Tied to the Tracks

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  Edwardsville, IL  Photo credit: Reuters If you hadn't heard, that wind we had last Friday was the remains of a tornado that ripped t...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The Consequences of Prohibition (or "Not Everything Has to be Mandated")

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(Written July 2, 2015, probably in response to some zealot wanting to criminalize plastic bags) "I'm not one for unnecessary laws, ...

Breakdown of the Sandra Bland arrest and a look at double-standards

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(Written on 7/31/2015) Y'know...I've seen parents before who deal with a misbehaving child by counting down to the moment they'l...

Succeeding at failing

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I follow several homesteading pages on Facebook. One of them recently asked of its readers, "What is the one thing about this lifestyle...

Flexible Principles

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From 2017 I've been seeing talk again about censorship, or more specifically, things that don't count as censorship because they...

Rough draft of a piece I was writing about police oversight in September 2020

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 There are a couple things that I've found particularly irksome in the discussion around police reform. Well, there are many, but there ...

"Back in my day..."

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Gather 'round and listen to an old man tell a tale of how things used to be. You old folks, too, as many of you seem to have forgotten. ...
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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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