Starlight Essays
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
O Canada
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Back when slavery was still legal in the United States, runaway slaves used to flee to Canada. Then in the 1920s, when alcohol was outlawe...
Friday, February 18, 2022
Drop It Like It's Hot
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I've noticed something that may be of interest to linguists or pop culture geeks. You know how there are some words that mean both one...
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...
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