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Media Fun
One of the things about coaching and teaching rhetoric and debate that I always looked forward to was the chance to make interventions into major rhetorical and argumentative…
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The Natural Unnatural
On the subway this weekend, it was pretty crowded, a man gets on who is clearly homeless and very smelly. People began to freak out and announce how…
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Debating History in the Future
Well I expect to be pretty quiet this week – I have debate practices every night and possibly a gathering on Saturday for the new debaters since we…
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Rhetoric: Lost in Translation
Two websites of note for those who like to use foreign languages without really understanding how they work: Engrish, A hilarious website chronicling poor English translations from Asian…
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People Hate On Me For This
But Karl Rove is a brilliant strategist and thinker. I admire what he was able to do in 2000 and 2004. Today in the Wall Street Journal he…
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Pedagogy: Digital and Traditional
I read two interesting news pieces this morning that deal with issues of pedagogy and argument in distinctly different ways. The first is a news item from Australia,…
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