[eDebate] best rapper

[Michael Korcok]

i vote DMac.

but i am biased: his "Korcok the Barbarian" sampling me blathering away in a 
1AR still gets me teary.
at the Saluki in, what, 1992 (or was it 1993?), there was a rap-off at the 
party. DMac embarassed numerous pretenders like Jazzy JJ Jarman and Chris 
Riff Riffer.

Devereaux, huh?  downloading a few tracks.

also, this is a card that says something true but which has thus far been 
unvoiced.  I am its author.  here:

No research to date has performed a factor analysis of what in 2-person 
policy debate results in the substantial critical thinking gains that are 
reported.  No one knows whether and to what extent those critical thinking 
gains are because of speedy speech, dense research, arguing in a competitive 
framework, or whether it is all of those and various other elements of 
"policy debate" functioning together.  We do know, because of Kent Colbert's 
1986 PhD dissertation, that the relatively much faster and much more 
evidence intensive policy debate practiced in the NDT of the mid-80s 
resulted in substantially greater critical thinking gains than did the 
slower, less evidence-oriented, more philosophical debating that occurred in 
the CEDA of the mid-80s.  In the absence of additional research, we risk 
eliminating or even reversing the critical thinking gains of policy debate 
every time we slow down or de-emphasize the use of traditional debate 
evidence.  In short, traditional, fast, evidence-based, competitive policy 
debate substantially increases the critical thinking ability of its 
participants and no evidence indicates that any alternative inside or 
outside of the classroom can substitute for those improvements.