Premise the 46th- Bad Popsicles Part 2

Premise: Wooden popsicle sticks taste nasty. Seriously! For crying out loud! Polio vaccines taste better!  Dear popsicle gods, STOP ruining a perfectly good treat by jamming a bitter piece of wood in the ass end. Do YOU like sucking on lumber after supper? 

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 45th- Nectarines vs. Peaches

Premise:Providing that you prefer them over bananas, a nectarine is way more enticing than a peach. 

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 44th- Internet ID

Premise: We could eliminate a lot of nuisance from the internet if we had to have a verified internet identification number in order to use the internet. Anonymous users are the scourge of the internet. 

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 43rd- Justifiable Homicide

Premise:If you can find the anonymous assholes that purposely start shit with you and attack you on the internet just because they know how, it should be legal to violently kill them. If your life is so shallow that you derive your entertainment or pleasure from personally attacking people online, you are a fucking piece of shit and the planet has no more use for you. Killing such people is nothing more than taking out the trash. 

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 42nd- Genderless Scouts

Premise: The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts should be conglomerated and made simply "Scouts", without separating girls and boys. There is no value in society, other than teaching archaic gender role placement, in separating boys from girls. Boys don't become better men for learning "man things" and girls don't become better women by learning "woman things". We need to stop poisoning our kids with gender roles, and just let them be who they are. 


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 41st- Corporate Greed

Premise: The term "Corporate Greed" is an oxymoron. Corporations exist for the sole purpose of making money for shareholders. Only methodology differs. Blaming corporations for doing everything they possibly can to make a buck, within the confines of the laws, is like blaming a dog for pissing on your carpet if no one ever trained him not to. 


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 40th- Michael Moore

Premise: Michael Moore's claim to be one of the 99% makes as much sense as Michele Bachmann coming out as a proud black woman. Hey, Mike! Dressing like a slob doesn't make you poor.

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 39th- Mustard Juice

Premise: Mustard juice is nasty. Someone should figure out how to make mustard that doesn't separate. They'd make a fortune!

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 38th- Trump

Premise: Anyone with a modicum of intelligence understands that Donald Trump is a fake; worth nowhere NEAR a billion dollars. We watch him for the same reason the knights of old took pleasure in humouring the court jesters that thought themselves kings...because he's a fool who doesn't even know it. That's the only appeal. 

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 37th- Beat Down

Premise: Whoever it was that first said "Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." Should be regularly beaten to within an inch of their lives. Life's beat downs don't  make you stronger. Sometimes they leaves scars, and it fucking hurts!

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 36th- Tattoo Barbie

Premise: The new tattooed Barbie is cool! In fact the only thing cooler is a sexy blonde with the Mattel logo tattooed on her ass! 

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 35th- Anderson Cooper

Premise: Anderson Cooper is the next Oprah Winfrey

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 34th- Herman Cain

Premise: Herman Cain is a bigot, skating by on the absurd notion that it's okay to be a bigot if you're black.  

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 33rd - Dear Occupy Wall Street

Premise: Dear Occupy Wall Street protesters. Either you don't get it or I don't get it, and I think perhaps it's you. Just to make sure though, please clarify.... So your position is that you hate the man because he won't hire you? And um... you want to work for the man even though you don't trust him and you don't respect him. So, why should he hire you. Help me out here. I'm lost.

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 32nd- Variable Morality

Premise: Morality is a personal choice; not a societal one. In a free nation, people make personal choices personally. The government's job is not to legislate morality, but rather, order between people of varied morality. Indeed, were it not for variances in morality, there would be no need for government. 

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 31st - Jobs

Premise: People don't need jobs. They need income. Jobs are but one way among many ways of procuring income. Moreover, even those who are employed are, in the end, self-employed in that they decide who their client is and whether they are willing to do what the client requires for the compensation offered by that client. 

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 30th - Venti, Venti, Grande

Premise: Let's be honest. MOST of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are people who spent the 90's playing a lively game of "Venti, Venti, Grande" and then one day woke up and realized that $4 for a cup of coffee is fucking expensive...and now they are blaming someone else for their withdrawal headache.

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 29th - Damn Homeless People!

Premise: If you have a hangup about homeless people you should buy some ratty clothes from a thrift store and wear them for a week, without taking them off, without showering, combing your hair or brushing your teeth. Then go out amongst strangers on the street attempting to make a human connection without revealing the gag. Then write an account of your experiences and decide if you still feel the same about the homeless.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 28th - It's a Personal Thing

Premise: Morality was meant to be personal-- not publicly enforced by influence, coercion, or legislation.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 27th - WTF?

Premise: One sure sign that we have seriously screwed up our priorities in life is that the seams in our clothing are on the inside...rubbing uncomfortably against our skin...for the sake of what others think.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 26th - #Occupy

Premise: Occupy Wall Street (Now, occupy EVERYWHERE)  is sort of like a band of angry relatives that didn't get a check when Uncle Jack won the Powerball Jackpot.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 25th - Eating Ann Coulter

Premise: If Michael Moore killed and ate Ann Coulter for a snack, it would be a public service... the sort for which we award medals and ticker tape parades, but I'd still want it prosecuted as a capital crime...just to shut him up.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 24th- War for Oil

Premise:For a number of years, war detractors said that we had gone to war for oil (now the buzz word is "lithium") Perhaps the oil is hidden away with those WMDs. In any case, given the price of gas, I'm pretty sure I want my money back!


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 23rd- Matt Damon

Premise:Matt Damon should moderate a presidential debate...with the proviso that if someone pisses him off, he gets to punch them in the mouth and impregnate their oldest daughter.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 22nd - Hillary

Premise: If Secretary of State Clinton really loved America, she would resign her post and run against her boss for the Democratic nomination.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 21st - Screw the Environment

Premise: The Republicans are right about the EPA. Screw the environment. Sick children with three tails are just the next step in the evolutionary...uh...creation process.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the 20th- She Heard You!

Premise: When a woman says "What?", it's not because she didn't hear you. She's giving you a chance to change what you said.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Nineteenth- Ugly Babies

Premise: Sometimes babies are freakishly ugly. As such, in an honest world, we should have the right, without penalty, to say "Dude! Your kid looks like Gollum!"


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Eighteenth- 666

Premise: Herman Cain's 999 plan was supposed to be a 666 plan, but the first time he read it aloud, the page was upside down. So he stuck to his guns.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Seventeenth- RomneyPwnd

Premise: Mitt Romney's biggest problem, is that despite a pretty good record, his rhetoric doesn't match his rhetoric.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Sixteenth- The Christ

Premise: The picture on the left is a photograph of Jesus....the one some call "the Christ". It's one of many photographs of Him. Next time You see Him, you should stop whatever you are doing and buy Him a sandwich.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Fifteenth- Gloria Allred

Premise: Gloria Allred would be a nicer person if she was getting laid.


Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Fourteenth- Rainbow Jesus

Premise: Jesus would have been honored to officiate a wedding for same-sex couples.

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Thirteenth- Bad Popsicles

Premise: Orange, white, pink, blue, and green popisicles should be banned from the multi-flavor popsicle packs until or unless they can make them taste better than red and purple.

Assignment: Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Twelfth- Drawing on Children

Premise: Drawing on kids' heads with permanent markers as a disciplinary measures, as was done to this kid, is a real step forward in educating children.

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Eleventh- Missing Droids

Premise: Sarah Palin is the droid these dudes (in the pic) were looking for

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Tenth- Marijuana

Premise: Pot shouldn't merely be legalized. It should be MANDATED!

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Ninth- Public Hangings

Premise: We should re-institute public hangings for politicians who re convicted of breaching the public's trust.

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the eighth- Death Match

Premise: Celebrity Death Match should be real. First up: Michael Moore vs. Rush Limbaugh

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Seventh- Aliens

Premise: John Boehner is an alien from another planet sent to earth as punishment for crimes against his home planet.

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Sixth- Taxation

Premise: The Tax rate should be a set rate of 75 percent of every dollar over $100,000 that anyone makes in a year. 

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Fifth- Vegans

Premise: One of the biggest benefits of learning how to grow organs and body parts in a laboratory setting, is that  vegans and vegetarians will shut up and enjoy a damn steak!

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Fourth- Sporks

Premise: To save natural resources, forks and spoons should be outlawed, and instead we should encourage the production of sporks.

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Third- Gas Prices

Premise: Gasoline prices should be artificially inflated to $12 per gallon in order to facilitate faster growth in alternative energy research.

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the Second- Killing Old People

Premise: We should kill every human being on their 60th birthday in order to facilitate more productive lives in our youth.

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!

Premise the First- Secession

Premise: The United States should dissolve into 50 sovereign nations, with a loose affiliation, for purposes of military and currency...like the EU.

Assignment:  Argue for or against the merits of this premise, using logic, sound reasoning, and where possible, citations (links) to back up your arguments.

Caveat: You need not take the side that you actually believe. Sometimes arguing the other side is more fun.

GO!