Education Debater Gifts

'My teacher says I'm an underachiever, but I think she's an overexpecter.'

Education Act of 1870 - Quarrelling

'Don't blame me. Blame the on-going crisis in education.'

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

Dialogue

"Now that's a win."

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

'-and you're living proof that ALL men are not born equal, runt!'

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

"I like it, honey ... it speaks to what a waste of time your MFA was."

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

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?"

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

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.

More Unequal Than Others

Verbal Orders

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.

And now, for a rebuttal.

'Is there a God? God knows...'

The last word.

"Let's just drop it, Andrew, and leave it to future historians to decide which of us was right."

'My opponent hates cats.'

Global warming debate.

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

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

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

Yellow Vests

Debate Club Note

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

"I hate arguing with someone who knows what they're talking about."