<?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.post3312639712637397083..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/3738579/3312639712637397083/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-i-was-making-snide-remark-in-blog.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>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4011295910747927754</id><published>2007-05-08T11:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T11:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bill Barich&#39;s book Laughin In The Hills, is still ...</title><summary type='text'>Bill Barich&#39;s book Laughin In The Hills, is still one of the best books about any sport I&#39;ve read.  He based his book on research done at Golden Gate Fields, and stayed at the Hillside Motel in El Cerrito.  The Hillside, by the way, has presently been undergoing a renovation.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3312639712637397083/comments/default/4011295910747927754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3312639712637397083/comments/default/4011295910747927754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-i-was-making-snide-remark-in-blog.html?showComment=1178638860000#c4011295910747927754' 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/2007/05/there-i-was-making-snide-remark-in-blog.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3312639712637397083' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3312639712637397083' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 08, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5281506326806051325</id><published>2007-05-05T11:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T11:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Horses (like everything once wild) cannot hide the...</title><summary type='text'>Horses (like everything once wild) cannot hide their terror of our world.  A good friend of mine is a chiropractor for animals, but he had to give up equestrian work.  Not because he doesn&#39;t think they need it, but because the stress and pain horses are under in the professional racing world undoes his work so quickly that he&#39;s no help he says.  Also he couldn&#39;t stand the way he felt when he was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3312639712637397083/comments/default/5281506326806051325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3312639712637397083/comments/default/5281506326806051325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-i-was-making-snide-remark-in-blog.html?showComment=1178378340000#c5281506326806051325' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='30' src='http://newlangtonarts.org/bimages/conrad.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-i-was-making-snide-remark-in-blog.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3312639712637397083' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3312639712637397083' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 05, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9001775020287762570</id><published>2007-05-05T09:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-05T09:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the topic of Britain and class mythology, I am ...</title><summary type='text'>On the topic of Britain and class mythology, I am less inclined to be against fox hunts.  The polarization in Britain on this issue is pure class rage, since if the issue were really cruelty to the foxes, why wouldn’t they be against the meat industry in general?  So they seem to be against ritual, and other people’s conception of beauty. (I’m not going to apply this logic to the West Chester </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3312639712637397083/comments/default/9001775020287762570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3312639712637397083/comments/default/9001775020287762570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/05/there-i-was-making-snide-remark-in-blog.html?showComment=1178370360000#c9001775020287762570' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2007/05/there-i-was-making-snide-remark-in-blog.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3312639712637397083' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3312639712637397083' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 05, 2007"/></entry></feed>