Survival

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 [...]

Filed under: loose thoughts, tournaments | Posted on September 29th, 2011 by palmer

30s by Round

Filed under: debate, tournaments | Posted on December 21st, 2010 by palmer

Judging Bronx

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 [...]

Filed under: debate, speech, tournaments | Posted on October 19th, 2010 by palmer

Weighing it out

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 [...]

Filed under: coaching, debate, tournaments | Posted on August 20th, 2010 by palmer

Caselists and privacy

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 [...]

Filed under: debate, tournaments | Posted on August 9th, 2010 by palmer

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