The Uber-ballot

Some good things did come from Harvard, and one is an idea that you’ll likely see at a Yale tournament near you in the fall.  Policy Mike was staying with me for the weekend so he could judge the Harvard policy tournament, and at one point he mentioned how judging speech left him feeling [...]

Filed under: speech | Posted on March 14th, 2008 by palmer

Snow Globe

For the last two days the weather has been somewhat like a snowglobe; we’ve had gentle falling snow that never seems to accumulate.  The snow powders the earth, and then the temperature just edges above freezing, so it melts; and then it drops another two degrees, we slip below the edge of freezing, and the [...]

Filed under: speech | Posted on February 8th, 2008 by palmer

Iowa Addendum

It’s elections like that that make me wonder why people make political predictions.  I suppose predicting the future and having others listen makes people feel smart.  I never make predictions, even as extempers always ask me for them.  This year is an especially good example; I can make a really compelling argument why no one [...]

Filed under: speech | Posted on January 4th, 2008 by palmer

Vacations

So I had an utterly useless vacation between Christmas and New Year’s.  It was useful in the sense that I avoided the psychic despair that comes upon everyone sitting around faking it in a non-retail job that week.  Retail folks, of course, are in the middle of hell on earth, but that brand of hell [...]

Filed under: speech | Posted on January 4th, 2008 by palmer

Marathon Approaches

So the January Sprint is upon us in just one more weekend.   I have, in a row, our own Newton South tournament, the big Lexington Winter Invitational, Columbia, then Silver Lake & the NFL Congress together, then CFL qualifiers, and then Harvard.
And then a weekend off.
I have to get started on some things for [...]

Filed under: speech | Posted on December 29th, 2007 by palmer

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