decorabilia

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 ...

The other day, we made borscht. Well, beet soup, really, as "borscht" has a certain charm that "beet soup" just doesn...

This post is aimed at my Washington state colleagues, but you're welcome to read it, too. It's about something I first considered t...

What follows is an analysis of particular empirical evidence for the fabled "time skew" in Lincoln-Douglas debate. The Contex...

I'm back. I should say: we're back. I never anticipated reviving decorabilia , but with my wife's encouragement and blessi...

If you hadn't already heard via Twitter, this is the official announcement: I'm getting out of blogging. Thus endeth decorabilia . ...

Robot apocalypticists often presume that artificially intelligent beings will be all-too-eager to cooperate to destroy humanity. Which is...

Though it gets flippant when discussing the philosophical implications, Jesse Bering's piece is a nice (nice? not the right word at all)...