Notes from the Ninth Circle

Essays, commentary, videos, information about political events, freethought, social democracy, history, and anything else I feel like writing about. Poems too, and a few short stories.

26 November 2012

Named Plantations and Homes in Hamilton County, Tennessee

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There weren’t too many big ante-bellum plantations in Hamilton County, only two, in fact, which could really be called plantations a...

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20 November 2012

Yesterday night in Gaza

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Written by my niece, Hadeel Abu Oun, for the Facebook page "For Gaza, We Blog" on 19 November 2012, and posted here with her permi...

13 October 2012

Kensho (poem for Farzi)

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When I fell In love with you I awakened To a truth Waiting behind The hidden gate That never before Had I really Loved at ...

17 September 2012

The Riots in the Middle East

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My first thought when I saw news of the recent riots in North Africa and Southwest Asia, particularly the one in Benghazi resulting in f...

15 September 2012

God and Caesar

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During my junior year at Tyner back in the 1980’s, I took World History as an elective. One homework assignment was to name the 10 bigg...

27 August 2012

1981 Long Kesh Hunger Strike

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In the spring of 1981, I was a senior in high school. The restaurant I was working at was about to close down, but with graduation near...

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Chuck Hamilton: I am a Terran, a citizen of Earth. The whole world is my home and all its people my brother, sisters, and cousins regardless of organic or synthetic origin. Like our distant cousins on other planets across space and throughout time, we are all children of the Universe. None of us asked to be born, and none of us will get out of here alive.

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