<?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.post2772680500598842533..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/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>37</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5185924678779690143</id><published>2008-12-01T12:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T12:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I didn&#39;t realize this discussion had continued.Kir...</title><summary type='text'>I didn&#39;t realize this discussion had continued.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirby, marriage has nothing to do with love or children.  It is a contractual arrangement between two adults (or in the case of arranged marriages between two families).  Traditionally marriages have been about the possession of property and often arranged to the benefit of family patriarchs.  There is no reason that two adults of the same </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5185924678779690143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5185924678779690143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1228153560000#c5185924678779690143' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6952090617983900807</id><published>2008-11-26T15:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-26T15:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s also the issue of Islamic people (for inst...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s also the issue of Islamic people (for instance) living in America (there are millions). Will they be able to have multiple partners, based on love?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Again, I just think it&#39;s a strangely lacking criterion.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Utah will be different, for sure, too.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There are other very neat religious faiths, that practice polygamy and other matriarchal faiths.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/6952090617983900807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/6952090617983900807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227729660000#c6952090617983900807' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-123734394832795328</id><published>2008-11-26T13:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-26T13:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Olberman, too, just says it is about love.But what...</title><summary type='text'>Olberman, too, just says it is about love.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But what about the incestuous German couple?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s love.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And a grand-dad and his grand-daughter (provided she&#39;s over 18).  That&#39;s love.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I still don&#39;t think it&#39;s an adequate criterion.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe you do, but then you would have to accept anyone who claimed to love anything at all.  And why couldn&#39;t porpoises then </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/123734394832795328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/123734394832795328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227724740000#c123734394832795328' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5691429812941374743</id><published>2008-11-25T20:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T20:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>See this 2008/11/22 jjgallaher keith-olbermann-on-...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;A HREF=&quot;http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/2008/11/keith-olbermann-on-human-rights.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;See this 2008/11/22 jjgallaher keith-olbermann-on-human-rights post.&lt;/A&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5691429812941374743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5691429812941374743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227663180000#c5691429812941374743' title=''/><author><name>brian a j s</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8283821455139267370</id><published>2008-11-25T18:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T18:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I did not claim I Remember was an AIDs book, but a...</title><summary type='text'>I did not claim &lt;I&gt;I Remember&lt;/I&gt; was an AIDs book, but a book about things. They had things in (and before) 1970.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/8283821455139267370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/8283821455139267370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227654060000#c8283821455139267370' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-857721043902236808</id><published>2008-11-25T17:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T17:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Earlier today I did a Google human homoeroticismse...</title><summary type='text'>Earlier today I did a Google &lt;BR/&gt;human homoeroticism&lt;BR/&gt;search.  The first result was a&lt;BR/&gt;Google books item I decided to scroll beyond.  Shortly I changed my mind.  It was a longish preview of a book written by a professor researcher based at a university in Chicago.  He even went into the future in an attempt to reveal the known, the unknown, and the questionable.  One scenario he posited in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/857721043902236808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/857721043902236808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227652680000#c857721043902236808' title=''/><author><name>brian a j s</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3784450741171516416</id><published>2008-11-25T17:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T17:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I tried to google your nonagenarian couple (you pr...</title><summary type='text'>I tried to google your nonagenarian couple (you probably found it in the same journal where you found out that President Buchanan was ...), but I found this at Salon.com, about a German couple -- a brothre and sister who argue that they should have the right to get married, because in France it&#39;s legal to have incest:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;But it&#39;s not as if they don&#39;t have a case. Incest laws around the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/3784450741171516416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/3784450741171516416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227651900000#c3784450741171516416' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1005942984067296909</id><published>2008-11-25T16:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T16:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Uuh, &quot;I Remember&quot; as an AIDS book? That was publis...</title><summary type='text'>Uuh, &quot;I Remember&quot; as an AIDS book? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That was published in 1970? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A fan of close reading like you would always pause, I&#39;d think, when seeing a phrase like, &quot;the specific words almost don&#39;t matter&quot; in print. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Such a phrase seems to bellwether a sloppy generalization, or more likely a pained attempt to shoehorn a dead writer into a didactic narrative.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/1005942984067296909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/1005942984067296909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227650340000#c1005942984067296909' title=''/><author><name>Buck</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04503657076745189153</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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-293043333"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5384804000006192483</id><published>2008-11-25T16:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T16:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>No I disagree, Ron.  This is actually what everyon...</title><summary type='text'>No I disagree, Ron.  This is actually what everyone is worried about. Of course there is the age qualification, but you have to worry about the 20 yr old and the 80 yr old esp. as pushed together by some kind of snake-biting church.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But that&#39;s just it -- there are all kinds of issues, and you haven&#39;t represented my rather squirrelly ones very fairly.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I see it as weird as the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5384804000006192483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5384804000006192483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227650280000#c5384804000006192483' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2235343912332974793</id><published>2008-11-25T16:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T16:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>in fact  most rapes done by the father or the brot...</title><summary type='text'>in fact  most rapes done by the father or the brother of the girl!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;all over the known &quot;civilized&quot; world&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and the the girl is held responsible  and Burned Alive..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;etc..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/2235343912332974793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/2235343912332974793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227648540000#c2235343912332974793' 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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4335070163158775</id><published>2008-11-25T16:19:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T16:19:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>By the way, Kirb, I don&#39;t know if this is still th...</title><summary type='text'>By the way, Kirb, I don&#39;t know if this is still the case (i.e. if they&#39;re still alive -- they were in their 90s when I read the tale) but the oldest married couple in the US is (or used to be) a pair of nonagenarians who&#39;d been married some 80 years (do the math) and were, in fact, brother and sister.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/4335070163158775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/4335070163158775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227647940000#c4335070163158775' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-648669010728357574</id><published>2008-11-25T15:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T15:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>At the risk of noting the obvious, Kirby, your arg...</title><summary type='text'>At the risk of noting the obvious, Kirby, your argument is entirely bogus. Nobody is fighting gay marriage in order to protect America from grandfathers marrying their grandchildren. Nor are grandfathers &amp;amp; granddaughters lining up to do so. You might as well be protecting America from men marrying turtles.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Without equality under the law, the law itself does not exist because it </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/648669010728357574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/648669010728357574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227643680000#c648669010728357574' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4797190193847901971</id><published>2008-11-25T15:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T15:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>now.. what&#39;s &quot;done us in&quot; (KO)  ain&#39;t &quot;terminology...</title><summary type='text'>now.. what&#39;s &quot;done us in&quot; (KO)  ain&#39;t &quot;terminology&quot;   whatz dun us in   is: &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the Big Buddhist Three Things that cause a l l suffering:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Greed, Anger, Ignorance...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;but, like I didn&#39;t remember &quot;kinemenascope&quot; (sic) I forget what these 3hree are called:  The Three Noble Truths ?  or some-such as written down in The Tomes&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;maybe ask one of them &quot;grad-students&quot; who </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/4797190193847901971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/4797190193847901971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227643620000#c4797190193847901971' 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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7731299278793011862</id><published>2008-11-25T14:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T14:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Equality again doesn&#39;t suffice. You need a term th...</title><summary type='text'>Equality again doesn&#39;t suffice. You need a term that gets rid of the grandfather and granddaughter scenario, and yet permits committed couples who aren&#39;t going to create genetic aberrations in the gene pool.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Equality is a hugely problematic term.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;No two things are really equal.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Equality, as a term, is an incredibly messy idea.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If you look at the term quite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/7731299278793011862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/7731299278793011862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227640260000#c7731299278793011862' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-44013095084488585</id><published>2008-11-25T13:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T13:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>if neither &quot;love&quot; nor &quot;tradition&quot; are sufficient f...</title><summary type='text'>if neither &quot;love&quot; nor &quot;tradition&quot; are sufficient for you Kirby, how about EQUALITY</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/44013095084488585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/44013095084488585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227636060000#c44013095084488585' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6965332420105631960</id><published>2008-11-25T12:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T12:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I didn&#39;t think Curtis&#39; letter (which he sent ...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I didn&#39;t think Curtis&#39; letter (which he sent to me) was virulent in any way -- I think it represents a majority viewpoint in California, and might be interesting to let others see that viewpoint.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am myself very troubled by the whole question of gay marriage. I have close friends who are gay and married and have adopted children, and yet through the church there is another idea </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/6965332420105631960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/6965332420105631960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227632520000#c6965332420105631960' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7899722337424747626</id><published>2008-11-24T20:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T20:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,The purpose of this site is not to let you ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The purpose of this site is &lt;B&gt;not&lt;/B&gt; to let you (nor anyone else) spread virulent homophobic stereotypes. You need your own blog to do that,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/7899722337424747626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/7899722337424747626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227577140000#c7899722337424747626' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7138337311026163303</id><published>2008-11-24T18:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T18:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think these myths perpetuate because of links li...</title><summary type='text'>I think these myths perpetuate because of links like the ones you name. Oswald never got to Cuba. He was pro-Castro, but whe he applied at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City just before the shooting he was turned away.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He was also denied reentrance into the Soviet Union.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;They had KGB who remembered him from his first visit to the USSR and he was way too crazy for them to have used</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/7138337311026163303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/7138337311026163303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227568080000#c7138337311026163303' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1988931707174088262</id><published>2008-11-24T17:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T17:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby and I bet that Ron wouldn&#39;t post my entry to...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby and I bet that Ron wouldn&#39;t post my entry to the box this morning, and we were right.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Tass censored it.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pertinently, the code word (below) for this post is &quot;ration&quot;--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;something there is that doesn&#39;t love a wall.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/1988931707174088262'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/1988931707174088262'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227564000000#c1988931707174088262' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7142525322894153843</id><published>2008-11-24T16:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T16:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Earlier this year I read online that Jack Ruby was...</title><summary type='text'>Earlier this year I read online that Jack Ruby was a courier--for whom/ I have no clue--between the United States and Cuba.  My memory tells me Oswald was also involved in Cuban activities.               &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What I do know for sure because Janice and I saw it on one of the networks: Oswald&#39;s face suddenly evinced terror and recognition when Ruby came toward him in the transfer tunnel.  &lt;BR/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/7142525322894153843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/7142525322894153843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227562200000#c7142525322894153843' title=''/><author><name>brian a j s</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5397982423894741649</id><published>2008-11-24T14:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T14:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This is the History Channel link: it is a two-hour...</title><summary type='text'>This is the History Channel link: it is a two-hour program that pretty much put to rest all conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination.  They haveon detectives who worked on the case, and a great number of details -- they show you Oswald&amp;#39;s marksman book from the U.S. Marines.  He was a crack shot -- 49 out of 50 times he could hit a small target at 200 yards.  He did this </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5397982423894741649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5397982423894741649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227553320000#c5397982423894741649' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5217428097490958336</id><published>2008-11-24T09:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T09:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I watched a neat documentary on the History Channe...</title><summary type='text'>I watched a neat documentary on the History Channel last night about Oswald.  It had a few details that I didn&#39;t know.  Oswald was a Marine sharpshooter who could hit a target the size of a fist 49 times out of 50 at 200 yards.  He was also a bizarre loner (shades of the Unabomber) who beat his wife until she left.  He was only 24 at the time of the shooting.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A lot of the stuff in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5217428097490958336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5217428097490958336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227537720000#c5217428097490958336' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8855565664614373686</id><published>2008-11-23T19:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T19:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i can remember the exact momentwhenhumanity&#39;s cell...</title><summary type='text'>i can remember the exact moment&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;when&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;humanity&#39;s cellphone amoeba&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;nosering&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;came crawling out&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;of that primordial&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;platonic&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;fitness center&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cave laptop&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;ringtome&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2001&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;an arabesque&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;space ape&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;oddity</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/8855565664614373686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/8855565664614373686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227487860000#c8855565664614373686' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5676567004647710778</id><published>2008-11-23T17:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T17:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I have my own memeories of that day &amp;amp; I guess ...</title><summary type='text'>I have my own memeories of that day &amp;amp; I guess I&amp;#39;d rather keep them mostly to myself.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I was a fifth grader in Los Altos. I &amp;amp; a few others lowered the flag at our school to half-mast.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What&amp;#39;s amazing is that Sly Stone produced the first Beau Brummel&amp;#39;s LP for &amp;#39;Big Daddy&amp;#39; Tom Donahue&amp;#39;s Autumn Records.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I met Ron Elliot later on at an Irish </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5676567004647710778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/5676567004647710778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227479820000#c5676567004647710778' title=''/><author><name>Dan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02111770961404171761</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mgYtPB1FSyw/SPtW7Uuo46I/AAAAAAAAA6c/coKBUHx-U8w/S220/le_poete_rouge.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-337759140"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8718079464635606590</id><published>2008-11-23T11:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T11:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Glenn makes a good point, and for those same-sex c...</title><summary type='text'>Glenn makes a good point, and for those same-sex couples who have adopted children, marriage does make sense.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I understand that some states won&#39;t allow same-sex couples to adopt for just that reason.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The counterargument is that a child deserves a mother and a father, and that these are a right.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s good to have these conversations, and to sort out the truth.  It&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/8718079464635606590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2772680500598842533/comments/default/8718079464635606590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html?showComment=1227459300000#c8718079464635606590' 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/2008/11/i-know-only-one-person-whos-truly.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772680500598842533' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2772680500598842533' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 23, 2008"/></entry></feed>