Academic Debater Prints

'I see you're highly intelligent. That's fine for academia, but here in the real world we're looking for people with common sense.'

'Is there a God? God knows...'

"No, accepting students who are unqualified is not what we mean by diversity."

"Let's just drop it, Andrew, and leave it to future historians to decide which of us was right."

"Doctor, your speech was certainly unabridged."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Dialogue

"The best part is that we got hell to pay for it."

"Now that's a win."

Changing Minds

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

"Mainstream? Who's to say what's mainstream?"

Netanyahu versus Gantz

"He'll never win this negotiation. He's saddled with numbers...but we have anecdotes."

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

'You present a very convincing argument.'

"Ever notice how grateful people are when you present them with facts contrary to their beliefs?"

'I'm now going to open the floor to questions.'

Crooked Hillary... Pig... Sad!... Not a Ten!...

"If I vote my conscience, it's Sanders. If I vote my pocketbook, it's Trump. If I vote my emotions, it's Hillary. If I vote my anger, it's Cruz..."

Like Minded

Debating Society. I can accept that money is speech as long as we can agree that some spending is like yelling fire in a theater.

A bunch of global warming skeptics want to join eco club. It's a school organization. You have to let them in. But they just want to harass us with selective facts! Today: Eco club. So? Debate is good. You have :An Inconvenient Truth" to counter their arguments. Oh. Great. Now we'll have to read it.

Science Snobs

Flat-earthers and round-earthers reach a compromise.

The Clinton Campaign, post-mid-September

Verbal Orders

Stegosaurus (say the evolutionists). Nonsense (say the creationists).

And now, for a rebuttal.

''Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense' Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895.'

Today on the Ask Sadie Show, we'll be addressing one single topic: Wondering. In my day, when a body said I wonder why dust bunnies are called dust bunnies, it led to all sorts of delightful speculation. We could while away hours debating whether it was a marketing ploy by big broom ... or whether it dated back to Napoleon, who had a fetish for dirty rabbits. And if we were lucky, opinions could get so heated that fisticuffs would ensue. Wondering is just one of many lovely human experiences utt

Nearly a third of the earth's life-forms have gone extinct. Cut! Stop with all the facts. This is debate club! But we're using a cable tv talk show format! What should I say? Unsupported opinions

'My opponent hates cats.'