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.

20 August 2016

Why I don't watch the Olympics

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When the Olympics Games were revived in 1896, they were about peace, celebrating the achievements of a few to lift up all, and hold up a mir...

18 August 2016

In France, 2016

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First they came for the Roma, and I did not object, because I am not one of them. Now they come for the Muslims, and I do not object, b...

30 July 2016

Sister Soujah on Hillary Clinton #BlackLivesMatter

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“She reminds me too much of the slave plantation white wife of the white ‘Master.’ She talks down to people, is condescending and pandering...

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09 June 2016

The Meaning of Life

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Man is an animal, suspended in a web of significance he himself has spun. – Clifford Geertz * * * * * In the year 2016, during the ...

08 June 2016

On Hillary Clinton's assumed nomination

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Should Hillary be the Democratic Party's nominee at the convention (and she still does not have the required pledged delegates to push h...

05 June 2016

Army of the Irish Republic, Easter 1916

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This is an order-of-battle for all the Irish republican forces which came out for the Easter Rising of 1916 all across the island, whether...

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31 May 2016

Irish Republican Army Order-of-Battle, 11 July 1921

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The following order-of-battle (OOB) for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) at the end of the War for Independence (1919-1921), taken from the ...

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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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