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  • Amping Up

    This weekend was the Cape Cod Community College Warm-up tournament, and I’m really sad that we couldn’t participate. I’ve been thinking about it all weekend. It’s disappointing not…

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  • Odds and Rhetorical Ends

    Can’t sleep due to my wonderful inability to breathe properly tonight, so here is a grab-back of relevant and interesting stuff: No matter how much technology you have,…

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  • Shoot without a Target

    There is a situation that I have trouble dealing with in teaching debate to beginning students. It is the situation when a student demands absolute rules for how…

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  • It's Not Just Rhetoric

    Often times I feel a bit sad that we in the field of rhetoric and argumentation suffer from having a public intellectual who is from our field. I…

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  • Another Aspect of Neoliberal

    Stanley Fish actually had a good blog post the other day. Go figure. Usually I disagree with him, but his analysis was very good. Covers an aspect of…

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  • Kids Today

    Outstanding article in the Washington Post this week about the crappy reading selections that undergraduates make. So timely as on Thursday I was suggesting a couple of good…

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