Forget Important Debates: Enjoy One on a Topic That Doesn’t Matter

Tea time is serious business and you are probably doing it all wrong

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Argument was the main form of dinner table entertainment in my house when I was growing up. We’d argue about the big stuff like theology or politics, but we really excelled at the little stuff — which one of Charlie’s Angels was the best, who has the best jump shot, if aliens landed in our backyard and asked to be taken to our leader who should we pick?

Catherine DeJager nails the little stuff kind of debate in her entertaining short piece Scones of Dissent: Jam and Cream Play out the Age-Old Debate. Head over there for a fun read. Even better click on the audio version to hear her playing around with various British accents.

Full disclosure: This post is nepotism pure and simple. Catherine is my daughter. I have a vested interest in sending traffic her way. I need her to gain enough new followers to top 100 by the end of the month to stay in the partner program. I’m counting on her making the big bucks so she can support me in my old age.

I’m due this payback after funding her study abroad boondoggle in 2019 where she received college credit for traveling the British Isles studying various accents. As far as I can tell the entire trip was…