Starlight Essays
Friday, January 7, 2022
Disputing Reality
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I'm active on a Quora group about homelessness, and one of the most frequent and maddening statements I find myself arguing against on...
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 ...
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