Starlight Essays

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Some Thoughts on the Nature of Human Experience

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 If there is one "spiritual" belief I have that I feel is worth sharing with the world, it is this: your last moment is your etern...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

Hurting People's Feelings Online Has Been Illegal in Ohio since 2016

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     In a recent conversation on Facebook, I was talking about how the values and policy positions of conservatives and liberals in the Unit...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Kroger Tightens the Noose on Poor Columbusites

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not ...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Equality within Inequality

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 I recently saw on Quora that someone had shared this image (from Twitter, I guess):           The person sharing this on Quora remarked, ...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Babysitting ourselves

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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or...
Monday, February 5, 2024

Unmasking the Tolerance Paradox

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 If we accept the principle that intolerance is always wrong, then we find ourselves in a situation where we are expressing intolerant judgm...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Noblesse Oblige

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 The following was originally posted as an answer to a question asked on Quora.com. Original question: “Do homeless people deserve to have s...
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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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