Legal Debater Prints

'We are no longer called criminals! We're called 'Legally Disadvantaged'.'

Cuz I Was Scared

"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."

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

Changing Minds

'It's a senior management position. We need someone who can listen politely, and then say no.'

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

Netanyahu versus Gantz

"Defense budget... Do you have any idea how much catnip $700 billion would buy?"

"I don't think Dawson understands the concept behind the 'Talking Stick.'"

"And finally, I implore the jury not to take my clients lack of alibi and blatant lies out of context."

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

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

"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.

'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!...

The Clinton Campaign, post-mid-September

Flag Kryptonite

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.

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?"

"May I remind you that our prenuptial agreement called for me to take the plants?"

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

'My opponent hates cats.'

Global warming debate.

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