Campus Debater Gifts

Sex Contract

'Our admission policy is now simplicity itself. If you have the tuition, you're in.'

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

Dialogue

"Now that's a win."

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

Changing Minds

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

"No, the Geo Metros, Hyundais, Rabbits, and Kias belong to faculty - the Alfa Romeos, BMWs, and Volvos belong to students."

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."

"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.'

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

Like Minded

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.

More Unequal Than Others

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.

Verbal Orders

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...'

The last word.

The book is so much better than the film..

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

If You Can't Beat Them

'Oh, yeah? Well, my kid has accrued more college loan debt than your kid!'

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.

'My opponent hates cats.'

Yellow Vests

Approved Debate Questions

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

Debate Club Note