<?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.post4810451066556464601..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/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.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-5914410210331223029</id><published>2007-11-27T14:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-27T14:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Since my wee attempt to insert somelevity into the...</title><summary type='text'>Since my wee attempt to insert some&lt;BR/&gt;levity into the comment stream here&lt;BR/&gt;did not work, my pot holder comment&lt;BR/&gt;may as well be removed.  Thank you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5914410210331223029'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5914410210331223029'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196190240000#c5914410210331223029' title=''/><author><name>brian salchert</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/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2101685185431675713</id><published>2007-11-26T18:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T18:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What a luxury to have enough to even debate turnin...</title><summary type='text'>What a luxury to have enough to even debate turning them off.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;-Tom King</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/2101685185431675713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/2101685185431675713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196121120000#c2101685185431675713' title=''/><author><name>Tom</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14211378281642641041</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1642046747"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5670843042419688483</id><published>2007-11-26T16:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T16:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It appears maybe I was off-base when in a comment ...</title><summary type='text'>It appears maybe I was off-base when in a comment above I used the Oxford Debating Society as emblematic of calm and reasoned discourse!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;See the Associated Press story, posted on the wire this afternoon (11/26) about the loud and messy disruption at the recent debate at about the Holocaust that was held at the society. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yet this story shows how debate, even in the most </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5670843042419688483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5670843042419688483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196113920000#c5670843042419688483' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3504170061341951199</id><published>2007-11-26T15:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T15:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think most people do what Ron is starting to do ...</title><summary type='text'>I think most people do what Ron is starting to do now, just after the fact (i.e., deleting really nasty/useless stuff that is just there to insult, provoke, troll, &amp;c.) &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Pretty much every valuable comments stream in the tech/science world has a number of moderation systems, and Ron&#39;s blog, given its massive audience, would probably be the place in poetryblogs where you&#39;d first have to be</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/3504170061341951199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/3504170061341951199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196110200000#c3504170061341951199' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900306766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8959650510454491628</id><published>2007-11-26T14:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T14:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>roni would be interested to know your reaction/res...</title><summary type='text'>ron&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;i would be interested to know your reaction/response to these reactions here&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;as i thought a bit i wondered&lt;BR/&gt;if your didactic constraint principle was a sort of oulipian or noulipian measure&lt;BR/&gt;a rhetorical tightening of the screws&lt;BR/&gt;in order to elicit a different effect&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;perhaps that would be an alternative approach&lt;BR/&gt;a challenge&lt;BR/&gt;with any given post&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/8959650510454491628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/8959650510454491628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196104020000#c8959650510454491628' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</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='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6198855936453418465</id><published>2007-11-26T11:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T11:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t know why anyone would thinkRon would censo...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t know why anyone would think&lt;BR/&gt;Ron would censor disagreement with his positions&lt;BR/&gt;and I frequently disagree with his take on the world of poetry&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do think however&lt;BR/&gt;that &lt;B&gt;a few&lt;/B&gt; of the regular commenters&lt;BR/&gt;are full of themselves&lt;BR/&gt;and, I suspect they come here to post their nitwitticsms&lt;BR/&gt;rather than have blogs of their own&lt;BR/&gt;because of Ron&#39;s high volume </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/6198855936453418465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/6198855936453418465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196093040000#c6198855936453418465' title=''/><author><name>suzannahhh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14809829011780441369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-997233470"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5064875612969744304</id><published>2007-11-25T23:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T23:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I often learn something from the more thoughtful c...</title><summary type='text'>I often learn something from the more thoughtful comments on your stream, such as Curtis Faville&#39;s. Even if I end up disagreeing, I appreciate it when my thinking is taken down new roads, for a ride in the countryside.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I hope you don&#39;t feel like eliminating the comments just because they disagree with your positions, much of the time. I suspect that it&#39;s more a case of the attcks that </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5064875612969744304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5064875612969744304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196053020000#c5064875612969744304' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='20' height='32' src='http://www.arthurdurkee.net/images/ADSTICK1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1315265054"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5106753445214289935</id><published>2007-11-25T22:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T22:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Let&#39;s set out a few obvious parameters first.Websi...</title><summary type='text'>Let&#39;s set out a few obvious parameters first.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Websites are proprietary, not &quot;free forums&quot; in which First Amendment Rights are tried and tested.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Blogging sites have no official responsibilities, except to the &quot;hosting services&quot; which facilitate their existence; and, secondarily, to certain poorly defined principles of &quot;community standards&quot; which are applied to material called &quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5106753445214289935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5106753445214289935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196049540000#c5106753445214289935' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9031644429779336338</id><published>2007-11-25T22:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T22:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sounds worth a try to me. I&#39;m pretty suspicious of...</title><summary type='text'>Sounds worth a try to me. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m pretty suspicious of the idea that &quot;free speech&quot; means &quot;being allowed to say whatever you want, wherever and whenever you want, without thought of the consequences or consideration for anybody else, and without any necessary commitment on your own part to what you&#39;re saying.&quot;  A pale conception of freedom indeed. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I do second a number of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/9031644429779336338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/9031644429779336338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196046600000#c9031644429779336338' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2571045149436401781</id><published>2007-11-25T20:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T20:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I am watching The Iron Chef&#39;scranberry cook-offget...</title><summary type='text'>I am watching The Iron Chef&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;cranberry cook-off&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;getting Stone Girl E-Pic  vol 1  parts S and T ready for my site&lt;BR/&gt;  &quot;for those who dig it&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;good move re:your reply feature... let &#39;em use their own blogs!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;a letter sent through the postal system  well maybe a Charlie Olson will be the mail-man? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cheers, Ed Baker</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/2571045149436401781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/2571045149436401781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196039220000#c2571045149436401781' title=''/><author><name>Ed</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='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7780455002816087205</id><published>2007-11-25T19:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T19:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Change of direction, I think:Took the link ride to...</title><summary type='text'>Change of direction, I think:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Took the link ride to Gatza&#39;s PDF.&lt;BR/&gt;I have read &lt;I&gt;The Chinese Notebook&lt;/I&gt;.  This is about the&lt;BR/&gt;pot holder called &quot;boppo&quot;:  &lt;BR/&gt;If said pot holder had a loop sewn near its opening, a loop through which one finger could be slipped, then--and this may be from childhood memories of mine, if one does not place one&#39;s hand into the pot holder, but does </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/7780455002816087205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/7780455002816087205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196038500000#c7780455002816087205' title=''/><author><name>brian salchert</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/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-700220467497798788</id><published>2007-11-25T18:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T18:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>to heightened discourse, yes.  for the t-giving po...</title><summary type='text'>to heightened discourse, yes.  for the t-giving poem--help me--i simply cannot make heads or tails of it.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/700220467497798788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/700220467497798788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196033460000#c700220467497798788' title=''/><author><name>Matthew Guenette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06901074740673802260</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-188382328"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3761483680567372114</id><published>2007-11-25T17:19:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T17:19:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Part of the fun of your comment box was testing th...</title><summary type='text'>Part of the fun of your comment box was testing the limits -- like seeing if you could say ... without getting bounced. Sort of like trying to catch the very corner of the plate and having the ump call it a strike.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But you&#39;re such a communist it doesn&#39;t surprise me that ultimately you&#39;d think that the One should decide for the Many.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think poetry would be better if it cooled it</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/3761483680567372114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/3761483680567372114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196029140001#c3761483680567372114' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1134524072530676916</id><published>2007-11-25T16:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T16:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>i will refer back to a metaphor you used a few yea...</title><summary type='text'>i will refer back to a metaphor you used a few years ago which i thought very apt for what takes place here&lt;BR/&gt;the &quot;pub chat&quot;   complete with background banter&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and i sort of miss the intensity of the conversations from the days when i first logged on here&lt;BR/&gt;albeit&lt;BR/&gt;sometimes it was bizarre&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;in this medium discipline can elicit some hightening of authenticity&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/1134524072530676916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/1134524072530676916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196025420000#c1134524072530676916' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</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='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1469629621627396417</id><published>2007-11-25T15:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T15:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,I haven&#39;t noticed any real problems with the c...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I haven&#39;t noticed any real problems with the comment stream lately; someone will have to point out  the &quot;sexually and reacially inappropriate&quot; venom that is supposedly sullying this site.  There are sometimes comments like &quot;have a little respect, as*h*le&quot;.  I&#39;ve presumed that you usually refuse to let remarks of that nature go through, but that sometimes you allow them--when you too</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/1469629621627396417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/1469629621627396417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196022780000#c1469629621627396417' title=''/><author><name>Stephen Baraban</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09637400683517160112</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-290229728"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4145289034929932453</id><published>2007-11-25T14:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T14:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Please don&#39;t throw out the baby with the bobblehea...</title><summary type='text'>Please don&#39;t throw out the baby with the bobbleheads.  You set a vital and incomparable table, and some bad manners and some whole repertoire of dysfunction are some part of poetry and the world we live in.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/4145289034929932453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/4145289034929932453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196018940000#c4145289034929932453' title=''/><author><name>CLAY BANES</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658806946108194962</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://lh3.google.com/_6SQBrtEu124/Rb6PNwpV5xI/AAAAAAAAADw/X6xmNGs9x8A/s1600/square%2Beyeball.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1291817752"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7796839328707667712</id><published>2007-11-25T13:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T13:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve always believed that the comment section was ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve always believed that the comment section was an important part of the overall scene here.  It all depends on what you mean by inappropriate. I&#39;ve certainly wanted to post comments (and have) but am irked by the long trail of desiderata that seems to accumulate. I believe the best part of the blog approach is that it can create a positive tension&lt;BR/&gt;between what your arguments are and how </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/7796839328707667712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/7796839328707667712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196016540000#c7796839328707667712' title=''/><author><name>theknickerbocker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00217507700799047220</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1123015749"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022512818345579328</id><published>2007-11-25T13:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T13:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cool (&amp; surely much appreciated by many!)</title><summary type='text'>Cool (&amp; surely much appreciated by many!)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5022512818345579328'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5022512818345579328'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196015580000#c5022512818345579328' title=''/><author><name>shanna</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17706867356078179503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://www.shannacompton.com/shanna_halloween.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-927990281"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5506002041624633568</id><published>2007-11-25T13:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T13:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s a shame that many folks have the tendency to ...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s a shame that many folks have the tendency to let their most insidious private perversions become public via  email or the web. A shame because I love it when there is an intelligent dialog on poetics in this comment stream and once you tune in a few times, you can get a sense of the players and their biases. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I understand the need to be more strict and support that, Ron. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5506002041624633568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5506002041624633568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196014020000#c5506002041624633568' title=''/><author><name>peN</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08068813038783953187</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.americansentences.com/images/photos/paulsurf.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-499294682"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5230097601041292351</id><published>2007-11-25T12:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T12:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Compared to the comments by readers on many (most)...</title><summary type='text'>Compared to the comments by readers on many (most) on-line newspapers (see e.g. SFGate)  your stream is the Oxford Debating Society.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There’s relatively little in the comments here that can reasonably be characterized as “simply snide, the put down, the sexually and racially inappropriate, the whole repertoire of dysfunction.”  I assumed that was partly because you already moderated </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5230097601041292351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/5230097601041292351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196012520000#c5230097601041292351' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8410888734585243525</id><published>2007-11-25T10:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-11-25T10:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Go Ron.  It&#39;s your blog!  Helen</title><summary type='text'>Go Ron.  It&#39;s your blog!  Helen</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/8410888734585243525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4810451066556464601/comments/default/8410888734585243525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html?showComment=1196006040000#c8410888734585243525' title=''/><author><name>DeadMule</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01209584859435270113</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-completely-separate-topics-first.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4810451066556464601' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4810451066556464601' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1345957712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2007"/></entry></feed>