In my junior and senior years of high school and all through my college years, I participated in competitive debate. It was a very strange exercise. As a contest, there is one winning side and one losing side -- the classic zero-sum game. There are two debaters per team, each participant speaks twice in the individual debate. The topic debated is the same in every contest for the academic year.

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#Hogwarts is spreading.

Joe Biden said that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong un called him a rabid dog who should be beaten with a stick. Overnight polling of likely Dem voters after the debate shows Kim pulling ahead of John Delaney in Iowa.

Here we go boys and girls.

DNC boss says candidates to be involved in debate lottery

I spent a bit of time on the political compass website making this little graph. Perhaps it could use a bit more information, but I feel this point stands.

2017 is turning out to be be continuing on the path set by 2016 by becoming wierderer and wierderer. Imagine if you will, the Clinton News Network broadcasting a full, unedited political debate in an really non-partisan way (really! I mean it). The format was straightforward. The speakers were self-controlled, by and large sticking to the questions proffered by the audience. The audience questioners presented represented a fair balance of differing opinions..

There has been a lot of commentary on the farce of a debate brought to the USA public by the corporate controllers. And a lot of people who either boycotted it, or plain refused to make themselves ill watching it. I tried to watch it after the real debate, which was watched by a bit less than 2000 people who followed the City Council meeting in Charlotte, NC.

The Donald sucks at this. Not the I was gonna vote for him. Nor HRC for that matter. But hoped for something better than this crap.

Her Heiness is cleaning up.

god save us all.

sigh.