Comments on: We’re Heading Back to Cape Girardeau

By: St. Louis Lawyer

St. Louis Lawyer — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:43:10 +0000

Cape is such a great place, both my parents went to college there and we still have a lot of family around town. It is great to see the old photos, thanks for sharing.

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:14:53 +0000

We dug a lot deeper than that. My partner and I would come up with non-conventional arguments, including telephone polls we conducted ourselves.

I sent letters to every organization that had a mailing address. I’m sure J. Edgar Hoover was trying to figure out who this kid was who was getting stuff from the Communist Party one day and the Minutemen and the John Birch Party the next. Some day I’ll have to file a Freedom of Information request to see what they DID collect on me.

One thing that debate taught me is that there are no simple answers. When you have to be able to take either side of an issue and argue it convincingly, you become more skeptical when you hear folks who boil everything down to black and white.

I mentioned that my partner and I were undefeated. Must have been that good-looking thing.

By: Charles Keefer

Charles Keefer — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:34:10 +0000

You were on the debate team.

I can believe it. So was I.

It was like Lawyer 101.

Points were given based on a question that might or might not have been a good question and you scored if you made a better case.

You got all your stuff from “US News and World Report” and “Time”. They didn’t teach research beyond that, only presentation, thus guaranteeing that the best looking, most popular kids lead the team and scored better.

I don’t fault them for it. At that time in history, those magazines were the best we could do. Must be quite different in debate society now that we can Google.

I’d like to see a story on that.