Eco-debater Gifts

EPA - Environmental Persecution Agency.

Global Warming is a snow job!

Progress

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

Dialogue

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

"Now that's a win."

"You know who's tougher than all your little superheroes? The fossil fuel industry."

"I’ll give you an ‘Inconvenient Truth’!"

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

"Toadstool you say? No, this is snailstool now!"

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?"

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

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.

Stegosaurus (say the evolutionists). Nonsense (say the creationists).

And now, for a rebuttal.

''Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense' Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895.'

The last word.

Global warming debate.

"Woo-hoo!"

'My opponent hates cats.'

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 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

It's not always a good idea for two contrarians like you to be together. You hear that, you old battle-axe? Yeah, I hear that, you old coot. That'll be $150.

''Relativity,' you say? — Well, it can't be any worse than your 'speed bump' theory.'

Debate Club Note

Popular and Unpopular Science

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