I fell into the world of forensics and debate through the narrowest of chances. My hometown has never heard of forensics, nor have any adjoining towns, nor have any towns that adjoin them. Debate and forensics is not a high priority for the curriculum in Massachusetts; and so, with some exceptions, only a few wealthy [...]
I’m intrigued that Menick believes that the proposed LD topic about net neutrality is interesting, but lacks depth, and doesn’t entail any broad implications about society. I disagree, and since when we disagree and bicker people apparently love to watch, I figured I’d do the world the favor (?) of writing it up and airing [...]
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’m no longer the MFL president, hallelujah hallelujah. After NCFLs, I was totally wiped; the week prior work — largely, me — had organized a two day workshop and symposium that required my full attention, and then immediately afterward (during, in fact) I ran off to Albany, for another five days requiring my full [...]
So the debate coach blogosphere (all four of us) has been atwitter about increasing the size of said blogosphere, or at least the capacity of online communication among forensics coaches in general. Admiral Menick’s latest idea is a common RSS feed which aggregates all the various debaterly content out there into a coherent, one-stop-shopping location [...]