Starlight Essays

Let's suppose, hypothetically, that there was a big company dumping toxic, radioactive waste in your neighborhood--used fracking chemica...

In the course of a debate on gun control--if you can call it a "debate" when one person takes an informed position and a half-doze...

  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...

  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...

  I'm active on a Quora group about homelessness, and one of the most frequent and maddening statements I find myself arguing against on...

  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...

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