Direction Debater Prints

'I am not lost - I just no longer have my bearings, okay?'

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

Dialogue

"Intelligent design...well, duh!"

Changing Minds

"Now that's a win."

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

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

"You atheists wouldn't exist without God!"

"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.

"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.'

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

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

Verbal Orders

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.

Sermon - why our religion is really better than yours.

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

Approved Debate Questions

John Newman

'My opponent hates cats.'

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.

If You Can't Beat Them

The last word.

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

Arguing with Edna was enough to make the brain fly out of any logical man.