The final round check continues. NB, I’m getting emails about this series of posts, surprisingly to me — I wasn’t aware I had readers. I haven’t read them yet, explicitly because I want to finish this and my comments on it first. The emails may well explain and correct some omissions, but I’m building evidence [...]
All right, so apparently Food was the semis and Energy was the quarter finals topic, as A HALF DOZEN ANAL RETENTIVE EXTEMPERS felt the need to share with me last evening. Mea culpa! Carrying on with the increasingly disappointing source check, however: Speaker 3 Q. Is drug legalization in the US a viable strategy for [...]
So because I’m contrary, and because I know there are many more shenanigans in the art of extemp citations than people suspect or would like to believe, I decided to take extensive notes on the sources used in the Harvard extemp final, and the claims based therein. I’ve now attempted to check up on those [...]
So I’m at EXL these two weeks, which is a symphony in three parts, though one played by an Eastern European radio symphony orchestra which is still being paid in Soviet era expired rubles, and unafraid to take it out on the music. Running a camp is fraught with dangers and fears, especially one that’s [...]
So I was thinking a little about the experience of NFL Finals. I saw three main finals (US Extemp, HI, and LD) and two supplemental finals (Storytelling and Editorial Commentary). I was officially present for the Oratory final, but Oratory tends to bore me to tears, so I opened up the laptop and discreetly caught [...]