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.

29 November 2016

The Tennessee River in Hamilton County: Its Ferries, Fords, Landings, and Hazards

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Here you’ll find listed, in order of occurence moving downriver, all of the ferries, fords, landings, islands, and navigation hazards on th...

22 November 2016

The Day After the Battle of Missionary Ridge

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( Formerly titled "First Thanksgiving Day in Chattanooga (Civil War)" .) By “first Thanksgiving Day”, no, I do not mean the ...

19 November 2016

Equality (for Ungagged 9)

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The following is the text of my section of the Ungagged podcast "Looking Backward", which can be found at https://leftungagged.wor...

14 November 2016

Rifle pits, Missionary Ridge, and the doctrine of the military crest

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One of the most common criticisms of Gen. Braxton Bragg on the Army of Tennessee defense of Missionary Ridge is that he ordered, or at le...

Remember Ronald Reagan?

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Remember when Ronald Reagan opened his presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair, in the same community in which the three civil r...

10 November 2016

For Veterans/Remembrance/Armistice Day

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to strifemongers to chickenhawks to war-profiteers to all those whose idea of patriotism is sending out young people to die tryin...

03 November 2016

Rise Up and Abandon the Creeping Meatball

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This is Chuck Hamilton, a Yank from Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, a poet, writer, historian, activist in various causes, and a Scottish nati...

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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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