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Regarding the "Right to be Forgotten" resolution for November/December 2014, reader @ayfreewilly writes, and I'm paraphrasing ...

I wish this message resonated louder and farther: you can have a perfectly excellent career without a four-year degree. Yes, you can : Thos...

At just over 19 months, Carsten, pictured above, not only has fantastic hair, but an ever-expanding vocabulary. For the sake of history, h...

I'm not sure what drove me to imagine a major league ballplayer who had one monstrous at-bat, and then never did anything at the plate a...

Until a few days ago, it had been an up-and-down year for my Public Forum squad. Back in 2013, we had not one, but two teams preparing for ...

I've loved teaching American Literature this year. It's the first time I've had the class since I was a student teacher, so the ...

A Twitter follower has asked me to elaborate on one of the V/C pairs I listed for the humanitarian aid resolution . Over at that post, I wr...

This post is inspired by Max , who wrote an LD case for the March/April humanitarian aid resolution based on the work of Emmanuel Levinas. ...

Probably because I blogged about it , the terrible Senate Bill 5246 was voted down in the Senate yesterday. The legislation failed 19-28, ...

If, as punishment for enjoying a day off, your teacher has assigned you a report on President's Day facts, look no further than this han...

This post consists of value and criterion pairs for the March-April 2014 LD humanitarian aid resolution , which states: Placing political co...

Washington State stands to lose $44 million in federal funds if the legislature fails to meet Obama Administration demands to include state ...

As someone who watched Phil Hartman kill it on Saturday Night Live in the early 90s, I'm old. Hartman's second-to-note Bill Clinto...

An important way to divide up ground between the Affirmative and Negative in the humanitarian aid resolution ... Resolved: Placing political...

The March/April LD humanitarian aid resolution invites a careful parsing. Resolved: Placing political conditions on humanitarian aid to fo...

In 2006, the Seahawks lost the Super Bowl. In 2006, Walter Jones cleared lanes for Shaun Alexander and pass protected for "We want th...

The National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) has released the March-April 2014 Lincoln-Douglas debate ...

The Seattle Seahawks--this blog's Super Bowl favorites--are blessed with two of the greatest talents in football. One has talk to match ...

You are going to die. Don't be scared. (Unless you are Shakespeare's greatest waffler .) There are two basic options, vis-à-vi...

One of the hot buzzwords cropping up in debates about the "environmental protection versus resource extraction" resolution is the ...