<?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.post282699949943634204..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/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-big-but-really-small-kenny-g.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>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9123694841831676228</id><published>2007-07-16T11:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-16T11:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Very encouraged by the comments stream after the r...</title><summary type='text'>Very encouraged by the comments stream after the ridiculous Eagleton article.  Many of the commenters said that the communist left was dead, and that they supported democracy instead.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When will the left give up on wanting to destroy its opponents, and simply go for the Madisonian notion of factions?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Answer: they won&#39;t.  Nothing could ever could convince Pol Pot, Kim Il-Sung or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default/9123694841831676228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default/9123694841831676228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-big-but-really-small-kenny-g.html?showComment=1184600640000#c9123694841831676228' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2007/07/think-big-but-really-small-kenny-g.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-282699949943634204' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/282699949943634204' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 16, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8579896972002379222</id><published>2007-07-14T19:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T19:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So-called &quot;zero tolerance&quot; aside, there&#39;s far too ...</title><summary type='text'>So-called &quot;zero tolerance&quot; aside, there&#39;s far too much indulgence with people who either can&#39;t spell, or can&#39;t properly punctuate these days.  The ascent of the internet as a medium has had a very bad influence on written practice.  When it started, many people simply refused to capitalize words at the beginnings of sentences, and/or proper names and places, etc.  When I arrived at Berkeley back </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default/8579896972002379222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default/8579896972002379222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-big-but-really-small-kenny-g.html?showComment=1184454240000#c8579896972002379222' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2007/07/think-big-but-really-small-kenny-g.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-282699949943634204' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/282699949943634204' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4383051774203637826</id><published>2007-07-14T16:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T16:59:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Call me cynical, but I had my doubts about Sundres...</title><summary type='text'>Call me cynical, but &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://rikfiles.blogspot.com/2006/08/best-of-net.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I had my doubts&lt;/A&gt; about Sundress&#39;s &quot;best of the net&quot; from the start.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rik (who&#39;s always looking for fresh and innovative ways to be cynical about poetry)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default/4383051774203637826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default/4383051774203637826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-big-but-really-small-kenny-g.html?showComment=1184446740000#c4383051774203637826' title=''/><author><name>Rik</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10564300512472868098</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.rikweb.co.uk/photos/rik-small.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-big-but-really-small-kenny-g.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-282699949943634204' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/282699949943634204' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1097429834"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 14, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-946029698772875302</id><published>2007-07-14T16:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-14T16:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default/946029698772875302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/282699949943634204/comments/default/946029698772875302'/><author><name>david dodd lee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14621886180328237133</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='22' src='http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/laughinghermit/2001.2002/img/ddoddlee.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/07/think-big-but-really-small-kenny-g.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-282699949943634204' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/282699949943634204' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1234087926"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="July 14, 2007"/></entry></feed>