Mindful Debater Prints

American Police

Enhanced Pedophilia Interrogation Techniques

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

'The way I see it, sobriety is a preventable, condition.'

Dialogue

"Now that's a win."

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

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

"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.'

Science Snobs

'If you start granting amnesty for people for following their conscience, pretty soon everyone will be following his conscience.'

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

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

The only Universal Truths that all religions agree upon.

And now, for a rebuttal.

Global warming debate.

'My opponent hates cats.'

"You what? Well, you darn well ought to have a guilt complex"

'Ok Preacher, here's the deal. You back off I back off, and everyone is happy...'

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

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

Approved Debate Questions

The last word.

Debate Club Note

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

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

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

The partisan cafe