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.

19 July 2015

Chattanooga? What the fuck! (poem)

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What the fuck? Chattanooga? Here? Terrorism. Here. What the fuck! Someone’s attacked two military sites. Here in Chattanooga. I...

17 July 2015

Settlements of New Netherlands

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The following are the settlements (anglicized names) of the Dutch in New Netherlands (a colonial province of Unite Netherlands existing f...

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14 July 2015

Stop using these terms

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Racism tries to make prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination because of skin color sound more scientific. Race, in fact, is a biological t...

13 July 2015

Civil War irregulars in the Chattanooga region

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( Last revised 26 December 2021 ) While Champ Ferguson’s group in Kentucky and those in the Missouri-Kansas border region are very well ...

30 June 2015

Confederate post-bellum exile colonies

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After the end of the War of the Rebellion, many former Confederates emigrated into exile, mostly in Latin America. Mexico The first...

29 June 2015

Nashville Pro-slavery Secessionist Conventions, 1850

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Though little discussed in history classes even at the collegiate level, two conventions of southern supporters of slavery took place in Na...

19 June 2015

The Two Jesuses

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I have to confess this essay is inspired in part by a few lines from the 1980’s British punk band The The called “Armageddon Days Are Here ...

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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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