<?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.post5705543165429731822..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/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.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>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5240782109130829062</id><published>2007-04-23T10:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-23T10:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Something like .0001% of the population is capable...</title><summary type='text'>Something like .0001% of the population is capable, at a given moment, of engaging in extreme anti-social behavior.  Wars enable folks like this--as in Vietnam, when otherwise &quot;normal&quot; guys would occasionally go on a shooting rampage and kill a dozen innocent villager women and children.  In a &quot;peaceful&quot; context, these events are facilitated by weaponry.  Without explosive devices and guns, Arab </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/5240782109130829062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/5240782109130829062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177338780000#c5240782109130829062' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01387339051753733341</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/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1631121944"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 23, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5819180933122327430</id><published>2007-04-22T00:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-22T00:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with Nielson in that this grave incident a...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with Nielson in that this grave incident at VaTech should not be used as a platform to wrongly lambast curriculum that comprises an education in English literature in what Olsen implies and states more clearly elsewhere as professors&#39; &quot;abstract&quot; brainwashing of students.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We need to not only watch where we spend our money, but also continue to critically examine, god willing,  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/5819180933122327430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/5819180933122327430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177216320000#c5819180933122327430' title=''/><author><name>Christopher Perkins</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17540834919994759239</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/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-129195072"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 22, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-180603926831304975</id><published>2007-04-21T21:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-21T21:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis makes some good points, especially about th...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis makes some good points, especially about the emotional mythos around guns and their history in our culture. The problem is, though, that even if all the people and all the legislators wanted gun control legislation, the NRA and its cousin lobbies would pull all the stops out to kill it. That has happened so many times in the past, it&#39;s why every time one of these sad tragedies occurs, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/180603926831304975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/180603926831304975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177205220000#c180603926831304975' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5588352970893652284</id><published>2007-04-20T21:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T21:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you for steering us away from the banalities...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you for steering us away from the banalities and rhetoric, and seeking to locate this tragedy in the context of our shared human situation. Nothing speaks of our values as well as how we spend our money. Perhaps this will inspire us to re-examine what&#39;s truly important.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/5588352970893652284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/5588352970893652284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177120500000#c5588352970893652284' title=''/><author><name>Rose</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09750893813872596478</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/437/2947/320/head-shot.png'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1992373064"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3212769059886578172</id><published>2007-04-20T14:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T14:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>“He may have gone off the deep end anyway, but the...</title><summary type='text'>“He may have gone off the deep end anyway, but the language (does anybody still believe that language matters in terms of helping us to focus the way in which we view the world??) he was using indicates the state of American universities and how it can help fanatics build a world-view that is paranoid and murderous. I would posit that the paranoid and murderous qualities were givens, but that the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/3212769059886578172'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/3212769059886578172'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177094640000#c3212769059886578172' title=''/><author><name>Boyd Nielson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04644539253495151757</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/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-797457565"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7885080426862642867</id><published>2007-04-19T22:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T22:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>my understanding was that if either of the student...</title><summary type='text'>my understanding was that if either of the students who reported him to campus police for stalking had pressed formal charges, a report would have been filed with the &quot;real&quot; police, and that, combined with his previous mental hospital stay, may have prevented him from purchasing either of the guns.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;legally, that is.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;but i also read a compelling argument elsewhere, i believe at </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/7885080426862642867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/7885080426862642867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177035780000#c7885080426862642867' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4546506193345651600</id><published>2007-04-19T21:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T21:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This &amp; ThatSaddened &amp; Fearful.</title><summary type='text'>This &amp; That&lt;BR/&gt;Saddened &amp; Fearful.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/4546506193345651600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/4546506193345651600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177031520000#c4546506193345651600' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1304074111"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-996412852378972732</id><published>2007-04-19T17:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T17:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you.Brilliant.</title><summary type='text'>Thank you.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Brilliant.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/996412852378972732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/996412852378972732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177016760000#c996412852378972732' title=''/><author><name>greg rappleye</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16498560951002730878</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r167/grapplepoet/BlogPhoto1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1851035292"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4196244142750549237</id><published>2007-04-19T16:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T16:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi, Ron, just to point out that there&#39;s a translat...</title><summary type='text'>Hi, Ron, just to point out that there&#39;s a translation of one of your poem in this link: http://www.revistapingpong.com/versiones.htm</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/4196244142750549237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/4196244142750549237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177013160000#c4196244142750549237' title=''/><author><name>Frank Báez</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04332275628847530271</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/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-516998787"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4920060916746522565</id><published>2007-04-19T14:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T14:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My hunch was right that you have something powerfu...</title><summary type='text'>My hunch was right that you have something powerful to say on this issue.  Thank you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/4920060916746522565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/4920060916746522565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177006740000#c4920060916746522565' title=''/><author><name>susan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13389531711498688770</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/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1992036533"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8879127800481484123</id><published>2007-04-19T13:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T13:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I pulled this off the NBC website from a commentat...</title><summary type='text'>I pulled this off the NBC website from a commentator named Beelzebubba.  It&#39;s indicative of the way a great number of blog commentators are looking at the incident:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I can tell you one thing, if this guy had gone through four years of an &quot;English&quot; major curriculum at a major American university like VaTech, then his head would be full of all kinds of hateful, anti-American, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/8879127800481484123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/8879127800481484123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1177005480000#c8879127800481484123' 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/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6639392684767949760</id><published>2007-04-19T12:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T12:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with Curtis’ sentiments on gun control, th...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with Curtis’ sentiments on gun control, though it is a complex issue, there is no question that the pro-gun lobby, despite its arguments about deterrence, etc., is an obstruction to rational, common sense approaches to gun policy.  Caution about taking on the issue from Dem leaders like Senator Reid is strategically sound, though.. The gun control lobby didn’t get anywhere after Columbine</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/6639392684767949760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/6639392684767949760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1176999900000#c6639392684767949760' 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/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1652075254467073862</id><published>2007-04-19T11:35:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T11:35:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>A workable YouTube video of Giovanni&#39;s presentatio...</title><summary type='text'>A workable YouTube video of Giovanni&#39;s presentation can be found &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2007/04/ron-silliman-on-virgina-tech-tragedy.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/A&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/1652075254467073862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/1652075254467073862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1176996900000#c1652075254467073862' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-724004876421759194</id><published>2007-04-19T10:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T10:20:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The handgun issue will continue to be raised until...</title><summary type='text'>The handgun issue will continue to be raised until eventually the majority, which has favored strict controls for decades, gets angry enough about the consequences of not having them, to force our legislators to do the right thing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;America is a gun-oriented culture, and this is celebrated and romanticized all over the media.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;After all, it isn&#39;t the virtue of self-protection </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/724004876421759194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/724004876421759194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1176992400000#c724004876421759194' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01387339051753733341</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/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1631121944"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8036224084186728608</id><published>2007-04-19T01:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-19T01:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bishop is what we UGA grads refer to as a &quot;Double-...</title><summary type='text'>Bishop is what we UGA grads refer to as a &quot;Double-Dawg&quot;, having both a BA and MA from Georgia.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I felt sort of removed from it all until a fellow UGA grad was listed, and knowing that he and his family are from Georgia.  Probably an awful reaction from me, but there it is anyways.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/8036224084186728608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5705543165429731822/comments/default/8036224084186728608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html?showComment=1176960660000#c8036224084186728608' title=''/><author><name>Amish Trivedi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11839976680249253602</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos.friendster.com/photos/85/22/2562258/600852179l.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/04/nikki-giovanni-ive-walked-around-all.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5705543165429731822' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5705543165429731822' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-832955061"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2007"/></entry></feed>