Recent Exercises

  • When Only A Sport Remains

    I predict here in a short amount of time I’ll be posting some definitive news about a move happening in intercollegiate forensics and debate that will no-doubt signal…

    Continue Reading

    4 min read

  • March is for Visitors

    Before we get into it, here’s my current obsession. I wonder why I share any of my Last FM listening stats with anyone because all you will see…

    Continue Reading

    4 min read

  • The Goals of an Argumentation Course

    Argumentation pedagogy is, unfortunately, homogenous across nearly the entire speech communication discipline. A textbook based on the Toulmin model – but not even the whole model, just data,…

    Continue Reading

    4 min read

  • Spring Break Ended, Sadly

    Spring break ended too soon but I did get one final draft out and have another one underway. We’ll see if I can make the NCA deadline. I…

    Continue Reading

    4 min read

  • The Start of Spring Break

    Spring break is here and the only thing I’ve done so far is play about 5 hours of Fallout 76 before getting ready to go out to eat…

    Continue Reading

    4 min read

  • Speaking about Speaking in Manhattan

    Next Tuesday (March 5) I am appearing in a performance about speeches by actual speechwriters and writers of that hardest form of rhetoric, comedy. They told me I…

    Continue Reading

    4 min read