College Discussant Mugs

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

"My political platform focuses on more ice cream and more frisbee chasing, with less chores and fewer baths."

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

Dialogue

"Now that's a win."

'Ah, it's so precious to witness a child learn how government actually works...'

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

"Your rule about no yelling out in class...that's a violation of my 1st Amendment rights!"

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

Anderson Cooper as a Kid. Today, an expose that asks the question: Who IS Simon, and why must we do what he says?

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

The Church of DanaeDanaeism: 'And let such sacrilege go uncontested? Never! I demand equal time for alternate explanations of things.'

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

"On the contrary, Bosworth, it's YOU who has lost all perspective."

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

Like Minded

Verbal Orders

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Student: 'Is the medical marijuana thing a grass-roots movement?'

Global warming debate.

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

'My opponent hates cats.'

Approved Debate Questions

"Graduates, faculty, parents, creditors..."

Debate Club Note

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

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.