Recent Exercises

  • Pedagogy of Skillful Means

    My body seems to know when I have weekends off from debate and schedules all my illnesses for those times. Yesterday and today I’ve been fighting a nasty…

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  • LOL Scientists

    Someone wrote a book on the paranormal! Sadly though, the author of this article feels that it’s shocking to know that in the book these phenomena (ooooh? What?…

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  • Musashi is awesome

    via youtube.com I figured I would try posting one of my favorite video clips just to see how this posterous thing works. So far it seems easy and…

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  • Mandatory Debate Training?

    Here is an article by Susan Herbst advocating for mandatory debate training as a return to the principles of the civic in the U.S. Of course, this article…

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  • Expert Adjudicators or Extra Adjudicators

    I was having coffee with a good friend of mine and colleague from the debating world recently, when the subject of debate theory came up. My colleague mused…

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  • Two Related Observations: The Consumerist Mind

    Not really in the office today as my good friend who teaches debate in the U.K. (as well as around the world) is staying with me. He’s catching…

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