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 reducing drug-related violence [...]
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 small [...]
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 [...]
So the nature of democracy is you have to make a unitary choice — yes to this one, no to that one — that cannot express your full range of preferences. Instead you have to weigh the opposing sides’ views together with the importance of those views to you — if you agree with [...]