Café Debater Pillows

"I still think it's a shame they didn't run Bernie. We've never had a POTUS like him. We've had cool presidents, awkward presidents, dignified presidents, goofy presidents... But we've never had a curmudgeonly president."

"She's in a conversationally induced coma."

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

Dialogue

'Think how all that chatting is affecting global warming.'

Changing Minds

"Now that's a win."

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

Trappist Monk Discord

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

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?"

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

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.'

'Do I believe in evolution? - Well, I suppose we should get it over with.'

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

And now, for a rebuttal.

"At this point, I think a rich lightweight would be fine."

'My opponent hates cats.'

"When I was a teenager 'Saturday Night Live' had Mike Myers, Chris Farley, Phil Hartman..."

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

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

Global warming debate.

The last word.

Approved Debate Questions

If You Can't Beat Them

Debate Club Note

Hot air ballon, but with the ballon replaced by a thought bubble.

"Not many of you may agree with me..."

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

The partisan cafe