Breed Debater Pillows

'Hey, wait a minute - this is a Guernsy!...'

"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."

'Or we could just ask her what kind of dog it is.'

"Now that's a win."

Changing Minds

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

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

"Toadstool you say? No, this is snailstool now!"

Netanyahu versus Gantz

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.'

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..."

The Clinton Campaign, post-mid-September

Flat-earthers and round-earthers reach a compromise.

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

Verbal Orders

"Steak, Richard, is just grown up veal."

And now, for a rebuttal.

"Very nice résumé. Leave a sample of your DNA with my secretary."

Global warming debate.

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.

Approved Debate Questions

Move Right

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

If You Can't Beat Them

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