<?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.post1621682829625200697..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/3738579/1621682829625200697/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_21.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>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6533408050953766389</id><published>2010-03-27T08:17:56.656-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-27T08:17:56.656-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t know about these numbers, but I can sa...</title><summary type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t know about these numbers, but I can say that I grew up in a rural area. My mom started working at a bank when I was around 11. During the Reagan years and after, after the banking and S&amp;amp;L deregulations, and some continual roiling of ag. subsidies, it was a slow and steady process of smaller farmers going bust and their land and resources being purchased by other, generally larger </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1621682829625200697/comments/default/6533408050953766389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1621682829625200697/comments/default/6533408050953766389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_21.html?showComment=1269692276656#c6533408050953766389' title=''/><author><name>jpc</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03810955298378231921</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ggSluWibBdw/SmXDx6nKNKI/AAAAAAAAADQ/kyoxZPbTiAA/S220/in_wien.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_21.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1621682829625200697' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1621682829625200697' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-171107965"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9101532129325167016</id><published>2010-03-21T20:37:36.910-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-21T20:37:36.910-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I watched the first 25 minutes, and they had final...</title><summary type='text'>I watched the first 25 minutes, and they had finally finished introducing themselves.  One interesting fact came up: Al Young said that there are now more professors than there are farmers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could that be true?  What are the numbers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Could someone crunch those numbers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there are 6000 colleges with 100 profs on average, then that would be 600,000 professors.&lt;br /</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1621682829625200697/comments/default/9101532129325167016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1621682829625200697/comments/default/9101532129325167016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_21.html?showComment=1269218256910#c9101532129325167016' 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/2010/03/blog-post_21.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1621682829625200697' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1621682829625200697' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 21, 2010"/></entry></feed>