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Folks in the forensics world should be able to imagine leaving it, or they shouldn’t be involved.

So I mostly live in the world of the Massachusetts Forensic League, which governs most of the local tournaments in Massachusetts.  It’s an inverse of what they do over in New York, where CFLs run the local show and they get together once a year for the State League to step in; here we do [...]

So let’s sum it all up.
Apart from some of the inherent problems with various events, which are not the tournament’s own fault, discussion of the Harvard tournament inevitably settles on its flaws and faults, not on its strengths.  The strengths are the strengths of the community; the sense of seeing a large gathering of forensicators [...]

So Monday continues.  After the Oratory final, I headed into Harvard Square to buy myself a new phone, since the old razr was clearly dead now, rendered brainless by continually confused internal software.  It being around 3 years old, I was due for a relatively cheap phone anyway, in return for selling two more years [...]

First off; the first time around I posted these, I posted the versions with the full names listed; that wasn’t what I’d planned, since in the age of Google, that can leave a permanent stain on what should be a temporary decision.  And as I make clear below, I don’t particularly blame even students even [...]