Racket Battle Debater Prints

"I still think badminton is as fast as tennis..."

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

Dialogue

Changing Minds

"Now that's a win."

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

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

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

Squash Courts - "Insurance anyone"

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.

"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?"

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

"...And don't give me that 'I hope his precious little Blackhawks lose' look either!"

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

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.

And now, for a rebuttal.

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.'

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

Global warming debate.

The last word.

If You Can't Beat Them

"I hope I live long enough to see Bush's view of his legacy come true! I'll be around a long, long, long time!"

Approved Debate Questions

Debate Club Note

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

Bleeding flag...

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

"Not many of you may agree with me..."

The partisan cafe

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

If You Praise Anything about the United States