Editor's Note: This piece is excepted from a speech Ellen Sweets made for Women's Day in Austin, Texas. Her words are more timely now than when she...
Women’s Deja Vu
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“That’s the beauty of argument. If you argue correctly, you’re never wrong.”
—Christopher Buckley
For the sake of
ARGUMENT
TOPICS
Dialectical Writing, provocative, persuasive, and insistent.
- Toastmasters
- Marketing and Promotion
- Persuasive Essays
- Source Checking
- Rhetoric
- Literary Criticism
- Chautauquaa / Soapboxes
- Political Writing and Propaganda
The Hinge of Summer’s Door
The vernal equinox came and went, like a cat creeping over the newly sprouted heads of anonymous weeds. You hardly knew, unless you were listening...
ACE OF SHADE (AND BLAME, AND SHAME, AND . . .)
Djokovic vs. Australia / the Vaccinated. Here’s my unsolicited two cents… Fans of Novak Djokovic and anti-vaxxers combined were outraged at how the...
RIP, Senator Dole
Years ago, just for spite, the night city editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch sent me to cover Sen. Robert Dole’s keynote opening of the Young...
Finding the Right Balance
Admittedly, I struggle with finding the right balance between what's important and what's not. This is especially true for time spent on social...
POINT OMEGA’S RENDITION: A Book Review
Point Omega centers on Richard Elster, a retired scholar and war-studies / covert-warfare expert who retires to the desert to explore space and...
Taxi Tales: Las Vegas
Las Vegas holds a special place in my heart, somewhere between skipping a beat and bleeding out. Vegas is the girl who hid in the back of the class...
H & M
Despite efforts to the contrary, I, too, succumbed to the Meghan & Harry interview with Her Royal Highness Might-As-Well-Be Queen Oprah. Like...
The Value of Accountability
It was Halloween and 1961. The stars aligned over America to make a Catholic man named Kennedy president and put Alan Shepard in space. Elsewhere,...
Speaking for Farmers
Did He Know? Did We Know? (For farmer Gajendra Singh who hanged himself in 2015, and for the six farmers of Mandsaur, India, killed by the police...
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