Yale survived and even flourished without me, which is good for both its future and my own. I got September back this year, and it turns out to be a lovely month, with all kinds of nice cooling weather. Though today it’s raining like hell, but ah well. They even refrained from doing anything embarrassing [...]
A one time story. This past weekend was the New York City Invitational at the Bronx High School of Science. I wish I knew where Cruz gets his energy; after all, I’m exhausted enough at tournaments I run, and I call them things like “Yale.” I’d never been to Big Bronx before, and was hoping [...]
If a debater can learn only one skill, I would choose for them to learn weighing. To progress beyond saying “You are TOTALLY WRONG and I am TOTALLY RIGHT” and instead say “These six things you say are right, but I feel that these four factors I’m talking about are more compelling still” is a [...]
I remain mostly unconvinced of the safety of the case disclosure lists. I think people are taking the legal side of this query too seriously to the exclusion of the real meat of my concern, which is the long term impact of putting a large body of students’ work on the public internet under their [...]