Avid Debater Gifts

"C'mon, Hillary – just answer the question!"

"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."

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

Changing Minds

"That's six 'noes' and one 'aye', the ayes have it"

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

'I know it's controversial, but my calculations prove beyond doubt that a nod is BETTER than a wink.'

Netanyahu versus Gantz

"Defense budget... Do you have any idea how much catnip $700 billion would buy?"

'I'm terribly worried, Doctor - he doesn't talk back to Bill O'Reilly any more.'

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."

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

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

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

"In this one, references to everything have been deleted."

"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!...

The Clinton Campaign, post-mid-September

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.

Like Minded

You're on "Ask Sadie." What's your problem?! Super delegates. A candidate could win the most votes in the primaries but lose anyway of the superdelegates want someone else! Can you believe that? Oh stop yer sniveling. In my day, the parties chose candidates in smoke-filled backrooms without even pretending the people get a vote. At least this charade gets you out of the house. Gets the blood pumping. I guess.

And now, for a rebuttal.

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

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

The last word.

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

Approved Debate Questions

Global warming debate.

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

"If they shorten political campaigns, what will we do for entertainment?"