Decisions Debaters Prints

"Well, we can eat out, order in, or just sit here and let our bodies slowly gnaw away at our muscle tissue."

"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."

"Now that's a win."

Changing Minds

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

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

Netanyahu versus Gantz

'We're a democracy here, as long as everyone votes in favour of what I want!'

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.

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

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

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

"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..."

Crooked Hillary... Pig... Sad!... Not a Ten!...

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.

"How can you cross the road so decisively? I have to stop halfway across every time to rethink 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.

Like Minded

The Clinton Campaign, post-mid-September

And now, for a rebuttal.

"In the spirit of compromise, Canada is willing to offer any state of the United States, sanctuary if they wish to secede."

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

Approved Debate Questions

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

The last word.

If You Can't Beat Them

"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."

Global warming debate.

'My opponent hates cats.'

Move Right

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