http://www.ntsb.gov/Pressrel/2008/081016a.html

And how about getting an “edit” option for this board?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/zelizer.obama.polls/index.html

http://www.its.ucdavis.edu/index.php

On a selfish note, I hope UC Davis doesn’t jump into NFA-LD debate (at least this year). From the looks of this website, they could kick all of our butts… but good.

I am working on adapting witman’s method of paperless debating for policy as a method for LD here in So-Cal. So far so good as a preliminary set up.

The only problem with the system is that if the other people don’t have a laptop then it is useless….. Are there enough debaters out there that have laptops besides myself?

The system is foolproof and Whitman went a whole year with 1st round quals to NDT and no issues that didn’t come from themselves. I know that policy has a higher probability of laptops being present but it would be nice to see how you all feel.

Either way, I will be working on a way for me to use my laptop in rounds more efficiently. Doing the work electronically then repeating it manually doesn’t seem to foot the bill for me though…

http://www.crashtest.com

Alas, today’s front pages – both print and cybernetic – have become the best place to start researching on the transportation topic.

Per the Associated Press this morning, according to the NTSB, one of the subway trains that was involved in yesterday’s crash in D.C. was supposed to have been phased out as unsafe in 2006. This tragedy is a glaring example of how America’s public transportation problems have been overlooked and unaddressed.

while that is something I would do… IDK
I think I have learned a lot after running the water-ways case so I may be able to pull it off a few more times then I think but I have 1 month to read 11 books which, along with my dentist bill, stack to almost exactly 1 foot tall… we will see how I fair with that before I go and kill myself writing a pet case.

I think a lot of the summer is going to be trying to find stuff that links to everything/anything that would outweigh case…
It would be so easy to run squirrels on any of the possible res’ that no one could even find neg stuff on.

I do not see how this will not be a year of the ‘K’ in so-cal LD. Since we have pushback from sources about a case list (yes, I believe in I’ll show you mine if you show me yours) I do not see any reason why I should play by that mentality and not run screwy stuff that doesn’t link.

shotgun strat ftw!

There is at least one NFA-LD judge (me) who encourages innovation. I suspect there are others, but in the era of flame-mail induced conformity, they may be reluctant to speak out. Let us hope this changes.

Moreover, at least in the SoCal region, the rules and customs of NFA-LD are in a state of flux. Let us boldly go where no one has gone before.

Miller out.

However,about 200 miles away from that lake there was close to no water, kinda sucks.

To me, it is obvious that they needed water. So, I gave it to them. I wrote a 1ac to build a canal from point A to point B. I never heard the phrase “No solvency advocate” so many time in my life, lol.

The (de)evolution of policy makes these fun cases a lot harder to run because of the expectations.
No one had any DA’s on it, all they could do was run T and say not fair/no solvency advocate. Oh, and someone ran Rules violation because I used short sites Griffin ’07 etc.

Debaters know how to write innovative cases we are just discouraged from it.