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New CA/Tab Website for American Debate
It was designed to hopefully increase diversity in tournament administration. We have the same people (mostly Tuna Snider and myself) running all the Worlds divisions on the East Coast, and I’d like to put a stop to that. More diversity means better, more diverse debates via more diverse topics, and a different eye reading feedback…
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The New York Public Library vs. Big Media
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library_babel_fish/how_libraries_trump_big_media A must read for all of you Economist addicts out there. Commercial media just doesn’t hold up well when compared to public organizations that do information literacy right. Do you go to the library? Or do you leaf through the Economist on the way to the tournament? The difference is between the athlete who…
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What Does Debate Teach?
Image via Wikipedia In the Hua-yen universe, where everything interpenetrates in identity and interdependence, where everything needs everything else, what is there which is not valuable? To throw away even a single chopstick as worthless is to set up a hierarchy of values which in the end will kill us in a way which no…
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That Terrible Republican Debate
Image via Wikipedia The other night I had to watch that terrible, terrible Republican debate on CNN. In between Tim Pawlenty’s impersonation of a bad John Edwards, and John King’s disturbing grunting when a candidate went over time (What’s wrong with just interrupting them, John? You are the moderator!) there were a few “arguments” made…
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Pikes Peak Community College Joins Second Life Debating
Recently I have been using the language of building “machines” that “do things” as a metaphor for most everything happening intellectually around me. After the Denver Nationals hosted by Regis and The University of Denver I referred to the growing BP national circuit in the US as a machine that we are excited and thrilled…
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Rejecting the “Righteous Four”
Doing some last-minute preparation before our departure for New Haven in the morning for the Yale IV, which generally involves printing out maps, train schedules, hotel confirmation numbers and tax exemption forms. Prepping for a tournament is pretty easy after doing so many so close together – one of the things about adjusting to BP…
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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 cough and not really feeling motivated to do much of anything. I’m about to take my laundry down in a few, and I went grocery shopping yesterday,…
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Argument Culture (like bacteria?)
There was an interesting piece by Roger Ebert today in the Sun-Times comparing Bill O`Reilly to Charles Coughlin, and using some scholarly research as support. Ebert, I didn’t think, had much of a mind at all since all he usually does is say rather obvious things about rather obviously bad films. But this piece changed…
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BSDT 2008 Final Round
Here’s the final from that same tournament I thought I lost. I hope it came through okay. The video is allright except in the middle of it I try to open a window and cause some havoc. If you were there on that day you probably remember how nasty that room was temperature wise. Now…
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Slowly Posting the Videos from Cornell
Here’s the first one, quarterfinals from Cornell judged by me, Chris from Cornell and Irene from Cornell. Quarterfinal BP round @ Cornell Invitational Debate 2009 from Steve Llano on Vimeo. Interesting round, might be worth writing something about since there was some serious disagreement about the rankings during the adjudication process. This is from Vimeo,…
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