Academic Debaters Gifts

Institution of $20,000 plus Tuition Per year Learning

"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."

Changing Minds

"Now that's a win."

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

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

"I have good news and bad news about your cat, Dr Schrodinger..."

Netanyahu versus Gantz

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

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."

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

"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..."

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

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.

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.

The Clinton Campaign, post-mid-September

Science Snobs

Verbal Orders

Flat-earthers and round-earthers reach a compromise.

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

You got into the college of my choice, and I got into the college of your choice. Now if we could just work something out...

And now, for a rebuttal.

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

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

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

Hi, I work at the admissions office of the local university. If you could change the world in three days, what would you do?

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

Global warming debate.

Approved Debate Questions