On Academic Imagination

I feel like you've done a good job of balancing between analyzing things and... football.

The Virtues and Limitations of Advice

If women want to give me sex advice they should have sex with me first.

On Opinions

Obviously it's not to your taste because I assume you have bad taste.

On Friendship

That's giving me carte blanche to demean you.

Guest Observation: On Telling it like it Is.

George: Actually, I find an early Teddy Roosevelt sexy.
Palindromic Interlocutor: George would want Teddy because he wants a lover who speaks softly and carries a big stick.

In Rhetoric Class

No. I'm just labeling it more derisively.

What is phronesis? It sounds like something House would diagnose.

Meditations on Ethos

Guest Interlocutor, after witnessing a friend's giddy reaction to some New York cowboys: "I need to get a horse. You don't need to know how to dance if you have a horse."

Meditations on a Debate Tournament

Theories of Translation:
1) "Nipun, I changed your name out of love... And imperialism."
2) "E pluribus unum": That's like an orgy, right?

Theories of a Winning Smile:
Stop giving him things.

Theories of Credibility and Rhetorical Adaptation:
Colonel Sanders has ethos when it comes to chicken, but I don't know about other debate topics.

Peep Toes

George: I don't think I want to wear them.

Fashionable Interlocuter: Patent leather peep toes? You could totally rock them. They say "George."

George: No, they say "Back Pain."

On Freedom

(Interlocutor who is a Democrat and in the Army)

That's not surprising, you can be a Democrat and love this country too.