Communication and communication

As an activity, forensics is supposedly all about communication. That makes me wonder how we can be so surpassingly bad at it sometimes. We’re good at talking, but really rather bad at other forms as a community. There are pockets of active offline communication, but pockets they remain. This past weekend was the NCFL National [...]

Filed under: debate, leagues | Posted on May 28th, 2008 by palmer

Intervention

So I decided I don’t like debating economics, for the same reason I don’t like extemp speeches about science and technology. You need a master’s degree at least to talk about these issues directly in a way that can be debated. In an ordinary comfortable LD debate, at issue are ethical issues which have voices [...]

Filed under: debate, speech, tournaments | Posted on May 5th, 2008 by palmer

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