PF is caught between two opposing forces. The first is community-based lay judging. This feature helps avoid the false-logic style of debating that infects policy and LD to some degree; you end up with long chains of evidence that are fine for a flowpad, but the end result is simply untrue — increasing health care [...]
So I spilled over a little in frustration the other day. I stand by that; I for one don’t believe that the Internet is Different and a little spilled-over truth and honestly is a bad thing. Some flinch from it instinctively but I don’t see demons behind every byte online. Well, demons any different than [...]
So I spent last weekend at the TOC, as a judge/scout/driver/EMT for Scarsdale. My qualifying team, perhaps wisely, didn’t want to attend, but I’m a sucker for punishment that way. We had a fun time all around, and there were stories of course. Scarsdale did well; no one finished worse than 3-4, two made elims, [...]
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 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 [...]