<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post115738212495750201..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115815544260746541</id><published>2006-09-13T09:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T09:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Mutant Ninja Turtles.</title><summary type='text'>Mutant Ninja Turtles.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115815544260746541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115815544260746541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1158155400000#c115815544260746541' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115747893023742477</id><published>2006-09-05T13:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-05T13:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Ron,I grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;I grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which is sometimes called the birth place of the atomic bomb. I believe my father did consulting on the cleanup project there (still, everything describing the project is told in shadows.) &lt;BR/&gt;My father used his geiger counter to help us measure the radiation count of our snowmen. We lived in Oak Ridge&#39;s backyard, and our snow had a surprisingly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115747893023742477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115747893023742477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1157478900000#c115747893023742477' title=''/><author><name>jeannine</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16419593830749483323</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-679745349"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115745462106663464</id><published>2006-09-05T07:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-05T07:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Arago Press--I presumed to take your suggestion li...</title><summary type='text'>Arago Press--&lt;BR/&gt;I presumed to take your suggestion literalistically.  (Hence. a &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://kirwani.blogspot.com/2006/09/swan-song-elegaic-sonnet-etymological.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Swan Song&lt;/A&gt;.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115745462106663464'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115745462106663464'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1157454600000#c115745462106663464' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115741897601333285</id><published>2006-09-04T21:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-04T21:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>There is no higher priority than population.  Popu...</title><summary type='text'>There is no higher priority than population.  Population growth is the THE main cause of virtually every problem in the world today.  The &quot;growth&quot; paradigm, which was concocted during the Industrial Revolution, is not sustainable.  Contraction need not be painful, if we but abandon the titillations and imprecations of late Capitalism.  Living without cars and planes is not backward.  Nuclear </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115741897601333285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115741897601333285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1157418960000#c115741897601333285' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115741730557069697</id><published>2006-09-04T20:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-04T20:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Which is worse, global warming or nuclear energy? ...</title><summary type='text'>Which is worse, global warming or nuclear energy? Which is the purest evil? Scenarios for the disasters coming are continually pointing to sooner rather than later. The only tiny nugget of pure evil resides in our flagrant misuse of global resources. Now, it&#39;s probably too late. The number of individuals who will survive in the latter half of the 21st. century is quietly suggested to be around </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115741730557069697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115741730557069697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1157417280000#c115741730557069697' title=''/><author><name>Arago Press</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01854798848338540056</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1658279969"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115740808451371962</id><published>2006-09-04T18:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-04T18:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Alexandra,perhaps not more odd than &quot;I&#39;m going off...</title><summary type='text'>Alexandra,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;perhaps not more odd than &quot;I&#39;m going off on a tangerine&quot; (though the latter is clearly conscious while the former seems obviously unconscious) ;-)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The degree to which metaphors and other tropes are not much recognized as such in everyday speech, is a curiousity -- something that poets, generally sooner rather than later, tend to address, but non-poets are perhaps less</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115740808451371962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115740808451371962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1157408040000#c115740808451371962' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115739423775264212</id><published>2006-09-04T14:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-04T14:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>odd that the article would describe the problems a...</title><summary type='text'>odd that the article would describe the problems as &#39;mushrooming&#39; out of control.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115739423775264212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115739423775264212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1157394180000#c115739423775264212' title=''/><author><name>Alixandra Bamford</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02666899914815618215</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1562503401"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738994895695257</id><published>2006-09-04T13:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-04T13:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The terrible thing about this nuclear waste issue ...</title><summary type='text'>The terrible thing about this nuclear waste issue is how soon we forget.  The waste produced in any kind of nuclear facility is frightening, not just the amount and potency of it, but its &quot;half life&quot; of thousands of years.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We have this ability to create nuclear energy but we have no idea how to deal with the by-products (waste).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And yet we hear every week, it seems, a new </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115738994895695257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115738994895695257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1157389920000#c115738994895695257' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738944564081827</id><published>2006-09-04T13:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-04T13:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My husband was born in Richland, WA, and lived the...</title><summary type='text'>My husband was born in Richland, WA, and lived there until he went to college. He&#39;s still dealing with the aftereffects of thyroid cancer. So are many, many contemporaries of his from the area.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115738944564081827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115738212495750201/comments/default/115738944564081827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html?showComment=1157389440000#c115738944564081827' title=''/><author><name>Tiel Aisha Ansari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03994169558252043919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-was-born-in-pasco-washington-one-of.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115738212495750201' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115738212495750201' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-659844337"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 04, 2006"/></entry></feed>