Currency Debaters Gifts

"I'm not sure about this battle, Wallace. I mean... If we win, can we still keep the pound?"

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

Dialogue

Changing Minds

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

"Now that's a win."

'I suppose we've got to keep a sense of perspective. The Greeks waste our money, the French merely spend it.'

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

"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.

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

"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.'

"The problem with capitalism is the unequal sharing of wealth. The problem with socialism is the equal sharing of wealth..."

"I'm worried. We're small enough to fail, but not big enough to be bailed out!"

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

More Unequal Than Others

And now, for a rebuttal.

Sen. Krupt. Your vote should never be for sale. It's much more efficient to rent it out!

"I'm going out on a limb here, and sincerely apologize to my constituents today for the misappropriations and bribes I will take if I'm elected governor."

Approved Debate Questions

'My opponent hates cats.'

"Son, one day all this will belong to your tax office, your economy-hating environmental wackos and your corrupt political clowns."

Global warming debate.

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

News and Magazines. Record Debt. Dollar Down. How can the dollar be weak when we've been giving it such a good workout?

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

Yellow Vests

Payroll Dept. My economic anxiety has less to do with the weak dollar than the week's dollars! (Published originally on March 14, 2008.)

The last word.

Debate Club Note

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