Dynamic Duo Debater Prints

'Are you still mad at me for calling you a creep in my letter to 'Dear Abby'?'

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

Dialogue

"Just keep quiet and listen to what we have to say."

"Now that's a win."

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

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

"Maybe the unseen hand of the market will change the diaper."

"Objection! Pummelling the witness."

"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.

Donald Trump

'I'm terribly worried, Doctor - he doesn't talk back to Bill O'Reilly any more.'

"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.'

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

"Does the N.R.A. know about this?"

"Yes, Robert. Reasonable people can have different interpretations of things, but not this thing."

"Of course, that's just my opinion. If you want my professional opinion it will cost you."

Arrogant junior barrister

"I want to forewarn you—tonight's topic seems to be phallocentrism, and Jessica is in a take-no-prisoners mood."

Nothing like a Strong Message for the Midterms

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

"Be afraid my friends...if the government takes over your healthcare, you're going to be left with nothing!"

Got Rationality?

"How do I know God is not real? For the same reason I know people on TV can't see me."

And now, for a rebuttal.

"I thought you'd take up something like gardening in your retirement, not parkour."

"Listen, that's a Tang Dynasty urn we just broke."

"Afterward, there will be a short Q. and A. that will be just long enough for one person to take up too much of it."

Global warming debate.

Jeremy Corbyn

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