Blogging the NFL: Noontime Oratory

Seven orators! This is a frightening experience especially when you imagine them all going after the same Oprah-style speeches. But I was wrong.

Topics included English as Official Language, for; Diversity (title: Beauty in the Beast) – fun and very smart; a celebration of arguing by – who else?—a debater; the meth epidemic, not the most exotic topic, but well presented; modern slavery, he ought to be on the final stage (and how could you resist a speech that opens with Brittany Spears Whip Me, Baby…)?; and Why Ask Why speaking appropriately about curiosity.

An hour and a quarter later, you put down the pen and go, wow.