<?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.post2506281999967379094..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/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.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>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4190852733503932748</id><published>2009-12-11T10:06:36.282-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T10:06:36.282-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby:&#xa;&#xa;Jack London?&#xa;Upton Sinclair?&#xa;George Orwell...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jack London?&lt;br /&gt;Upton Sinclair?&lt;br /&gt;George Orwell?&lt;br /&gt;John Steinbeck?&lt;br /&gt;Early Auden?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/4190852733503932748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/4190852733503932748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260543996282#c4190852733503932748' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8933803957269066217</id><published>2009-12-09T01:48:45.978-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-09T01:48:45.978-05:00</updated><title type='text'>guthrie is probably attracted to the libertarian s...</title><summary type='text'>guthrie is probably attracted to the libertarian stance at least ron pauls stance on weed&lt;br /&gt;odd that it is somehow more honestly treated in republican circles &lt;br /&gt;i suspect in CA it is the dems catering to decriminalization and medical use&lt;br /&gt;and pauls notion that we should let people fight their own wars&lt;br /&gt;and a straight 10% tax for everyone including corporations didn&amp;#39;t he say </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/8933803957269066217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/8933803957269066217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260341325978#c8933803957269066217' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='14' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GGxzozVkZvg/SoNWqdZHBoI/AAAAAAAAAAM/IGjF8tvmWwg/S220/sculpture_crop2%5B1%5D.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 09, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6795221670875743840</id><published>2009-12-08T22:01:50.012-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T22:01:50.012-05:00</updated><title type='text'>gawd:&#xa;this is Great stuff..&#xa;&#xa;the &amp;quot;stuff&amp;quot;...</title><summary type='text'>gawd:&lt;br /&gt;this is Great stuff..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the &amp;quot;stuff&amp;quot;of dreams.&lt;br /&gt;I once met a Communist in Greece. The best fuck I ever had!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this was 37 years before&lt;br /&gt;Aids and blogospearings!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we didn&amp;#39;t even us rubbers!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/6795221670875743840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/6795221670875743840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260327710012#c6795221670875743840' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1575700569880035683</id><published>2009-12-08T18:48:57.418-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T18:48:57.418-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey, Kirby the neo-con fraud, you have no business...</title><summary type='text'>Hey, Kirby the neo-con fraud, you have no business being in lit.. even the greeting card sort. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You belong in a rent-a-cop uniform, puto.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/1575700569880035683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/1575700569880035683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260316137418#c1575700569880035683' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3032331040305499868</id><published>2009-12-08T16:56:37.649-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T16:56:37.649-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Orwell called himself a &amp;quot;Tory-anarchist&amp;quot;...</title><summary type='text'>Orwell called himself a &amp;quot;Tory-anarchist&amp;quot; in the Road to Wigan Pier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both terms are quite acceptable to me on their own, but together, they are even better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suffice it to say that he believed in liberty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, like most anarchists, he didn&amp;#39;t think the ends justify the means.  You couldn&amp;#39;t just lie or bear false witness, or skip past the facts and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/3032331040305499868'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/3032331040305499868'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260309397649#c3032331040305499868' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2600935726877543667</id><published>2009-12-08T14:57:10.767-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T14:57:10.767-05:00</updated><title type='text'>zzzz zzzz&#xa;&#xa;Pound opposed usury in all of its forms...</title><summary type='text'>zzzz zzzz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pound opposed usury in all of its forms as he objected to religious zealots and phony royalist wannabes. Thus he opposed the ideology of the GOP (however PC or problematic he may be now to academics).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Orwell also serves as a counterargument to Kirby&amp;#39;s typical grand generalizations.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/2600935726877543667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/2600935726877543667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260302230767#c2600935726877543667' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3142131832251012725</id><published>2009-12-08T13:21:36.969-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T13:21:36.969-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&amp;#39;s a mistake to think that anyone &amp;quot;on t...</title><summary type='text'>It&amp;#39;s a mistake to think that anyone &amp;quot;on the left&amp;quot; can write literature. Literature is only written by individuals, and leftists do not believe in the individual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leftists can write agit-prop, but not literature.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rightists can write: Pound, Moore, are two examples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there are no true leftists who have ever written anything that can be called </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/3142131832251012725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/3142131832251012725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260296496969#c3142131832251012725' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8948506106159416792</id><published>2009-12-08T12:03:39.803-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T12:03:39.803-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey, Kirby, why not bag yr phony lit. career, and ...</title><summary type='text'>Hey, Kirby, why not bag yr phony lit. career, and stick to like yr neo-con, neo-nazi sites?  Or and Ode to Kissinger, perhaps, bootlicker</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/8948506106159416792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/8948506106159416792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260291819803#c8948506106159416792' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1262219890118395451</id><published>2009-12-08T10:55:32.699-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T10:55:32.699-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Huntington&amp;#39;s can skip generations.  Apparently...</title><summary type='text'>Huntington&amp;#39;s can skip generations.  Apparently the paternal figure with the disease is less likely to pass it on than a maternal figure.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This causes the number of repeats to change in successive generations, such that an unaffected parent with an &amp;quot;intermediate&amp;quot; number of repeats (28–35), or &amp;quot;reduced penetrance&amp;quot; (36–40), may pass on a copy of the gene with an </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/1262219890118395451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/1262219890118395451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260287732699#c1262219890118395451' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 08, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1216479847507049725</id><published>2009-12-07T22:10:53.243-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T22:10:53.243-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/1216479847507049725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/1216479847507049725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260241853243#c1216479847507049725' title=''/><author><name>old pajamas</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10229885785933385293</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/_YiOt47ntY5k/SujrR5GbBwI/AAAAAAAAAAU/_m9tzrkSzcw/S220/DSCN3995.JPG.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1656621556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1811980979598927228</id><published>2009-12-07T21:58:38.810-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T21:58:38.810-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comin&amp;#39; into Los Angel-lees...&#xa;a GOP narc named...</title><summary type='text'>Comin&amp;#39; into Los Angel-lees...&lt;br /&gt;a GOP narc named Arlo Guthreee.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah never cared much for his tunes anyway, but it&amp;#39;s a sad state of affairs when even one-time leftist troubadours join the repugs.   Those who can&amp;#39;t hang with the demos can at least be honest independent curmudgeons....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read the fine print on Ron Paul as well and yll discover he&amp;#39;s not </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/1811980979598927228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/1811980979598927228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260241118810#c1811980979598927228' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4377279289127653666</id><published>2009-12-07T20:20:48.370-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T20:20:48.370-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Let&amp;#39;s leave politics behind for a minute. I we...</title><summary type='text'>Let&amp;#39;s leave politics behind for a minute. I went to music camp with the Guthrie kids -- Arlo dated a friend of mine -- and their mom was the dance teacher. In our adolescent way we romanticized them as possibly doomed because of the 50% possibility of Huntington&amp;#39;s --- as if the rest of us aren&amp;#39;t doomed, yes? --- and it&amp;#39;s wonderful to know that neither Arlo nor Nora has gotten it. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/4377279289127653666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/4377279289127653666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260235248370#c4377279289127653666' title=''/><author><name>Judy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05516857305795744182</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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846624484"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-613285066949713307</id><published>2009-12-07T19:41:37.762-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T19:41:37.762-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Arlo says in his Wikipedia page he&amp;#39;s a Republi...</title><summary type='text'>Arlo says in his Wikipedia page he&amp;#39;s a Republican!  How exciting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming into Los Angeles...&lt;br /&gt;Listening to Alicia Keys...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/613285066949713307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/613285066949713307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260232897762#c613285066949713307' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4022379683904552792</id><published>2009-12-07T18:05:20.987-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T18:05:20.987-05:00</updated><title type='text'>they&amp;#39;re gonna be here in 2010  in Alexandria  ...</title><summary type='text'>they&amp;#39;re gonna be here in 2010  in Alexandria  same place the week after my daughter and her group danced earlier this year  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.furia-flamenca.com/home.cfm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and in the lobby was posted that Janis Ian was gonna be there  the following weekend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Janis Ian one of my top three all-time favorites!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;right up there with Carly Simon and Anita O&amp;#</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/4022379683904552792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/4022379683904552792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260227120987#c4022379683904552792' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8854285842047503200</id><published>2009-12-07T17:09:28.318-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T17:09:28.318-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Golf in Mugabe&amp;#39;s Zimbabwe is apparently in ver...</title><summary type='text'>Golf in Mugabe&amp;#39;s Zimbabwe is apparently in very bad shape, as the courses have been ruined by the economic downturn there.  I don&amp;#39;t know if Mugabe himself was ever much of a player.  Did Stalin golf?  Did Lenin?  Did Ceausescu?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did Mao?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;does Kim Jung-Il golf?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m not sure that golf is an elitist game played only be the few.  It is an enormous </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/8854285842047503200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/8854285842047503200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260223768318#c8854285842047503200' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7133504651708625302</id><published>2009-12-07T15:50:31.840-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T15:50:31.840-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, &#xa;&#xa;How I wish it were true that Obama was a ...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How I wish it were true that Obama was a &amp;quot;mere Marxist.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not the case.   I mean, he golfs with the heads of corporations, banks, etc.  That should indicate something to you (and the far right, AND the LEFT).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/7133504651708625302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/7133504651708625302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260219031840#c7133504651708625302' title=''/><author><name>0000000</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14767771887014774485</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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-992609239"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9103948425000779250</id><published>2009-12-07T15:37:29.275-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T15:37:29.275-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I looked up Huntington&amp;#39;s Chorea and there is a...</title><summary type='text'>I looked up Huntington&amp;#39;s Chorea and there is a 50% chance of getting the gene, and if you have it, you&amp;#39;ll get it.  So half the people in the picture, including the little baby in the photo, if they are Woody&amp;#39;s direct descendents, have a 50% chance of getting Huntington&amp;#39;s which is irreversible and cannot at this point be cured.  You lose all control of your body eventually and then</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/9103948425000779250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/9103948425000779250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260218249275#c9103948425000779250' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3078226406460004482</id><published>2009-12-07T15:00:17.363-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T15:00:17.363-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Arlo for Ron Paul?   Sad.  The old Gold Standard r...</title><summary type='text'>Arlo for Ron Paul?   Sad.  The old Gold Standard rag...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oversimplification is the Kirbster&amp;#39;s MO, Mr Faville. Oversimplified sentimental moralism ad nauseum....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  Keroauc did at one point make a few comments against the New Left, but he also dissed Nixon, and was not exactly marching with the GOP right (see his last essays with some ambiguous writing on &amp;#39;Nam--then Ti </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/3078226406460004482'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/3078226406460004482'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260216017363#c3078226406460004482' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7609031031378501942</id><published>2009-12-07T12:09:32.384-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T12:09:32.384-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, do you think McCain was to the right of say,...</title><summary type='text'>Well, do you think McCain was to the right of say, Nixon?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you think that Nixon was to the right of say Lincoln?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What criteria do you use to say these awful things about the Republican Party?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anything, they&amp;#39;re all watered down since Lincoln&amp;#39;s day.  No longer have the Baptist fire around the feet that insists on spreading the four freedoms around the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/7609031031378501942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/7609031031378501942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260205772384#c7609031031378501942' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4403157515068853030</id><published>2009-12-07T11:04:47.201-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T11:04:47.201-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Let&amp;#39;s not oversimplify, Kirby.  &#xa;&#xa;Most traditi...</title><summary type='text'>Let&amp;#39;s not oversimplify, Kirby.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most traditionally-minded Republicans pre-1950 would hardly recognize what the so-called Right considers itself to be behind these days.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly, Woody Guthrie died of Huntington&amp;#39;s Chorea, a devastating genetically inherited disease that has no cure.  The descendants mentioned in Ron&amp;#39;s blog piece apparently lucked out.  &lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/4403157515068853030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/4403157515068853030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260201887201#c4403157515068853030' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2010706542760516793</id><published>2009-12-07T09:55:44.955-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T09:55:44.955-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron Paul is a very odd Republican. I would have li...</title><summary type='text'>Ron Paul is a very odd Republican. I would have liked to have heard more about Arlo Guthrie&amp;#39;s politics.  Did it inform his new lyrics in some way?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron Paul is a Lutheran, or at least he was raised as a Lutheran. He has three brothers who are Lutheran pastors and who were apparently educated at the Gettysburg Seminary.  That seminary was there during the Battle of Gettysburg and was</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/2010706542760516793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2506281999967379094/comments/default/2010706542760516793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html?showComment=1260197744955#c2010706542760516793' 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/2009/12/week-ago-saturday-night-i-went-out-to.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2506281999967379094' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2506281999967379094' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 07, 2009"/></entry></feed>