DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — Suite 248 also houses\u00a0the little known but very real r’Asadink Stadium, for tiddlywinks and other tabletop sports.<\/p>\n Unlike football’s Reynolds Razorback Stadium, which is unlocked only some six days a year, r’Asadink is multipurpose, an old experiment of the Department of Athletics\u00a0where every other facility tends toward\u00a0single use. (Even track-and-field are over a mile apart, between Tyson Track Center and McDonnell Field.)<\/p>\n It’s not only for games. The tiddlywinks and table croquet crews also practice on the 2×3-foot green felt mat in\u00a0248.<\/p>\n The 248 test was abandoned but not forgotten, least of all by me, still on the Razorback (or was it RazorTemp<\/a>?) payroll as r’Asadink table sports coach and caretaker. It’s moonlighting, outside of my full-time Web job.<\/p>\n Yet we must take weapons seriously with Arkansas Act 562<\/a>. While apparently there’s a winning\u00a0argument that guns wielded by slightly trained amateurs protect democracy\u00a0except at fields of play, guns never have been welcome at my arena and they never will be.<\/p>\n The season’s winner of the Arkansas vs. Deep State tiddlywinks<\/a> rivalry will play Britain<\/a> for the world championship. Think of England — where gunfire\u00a0is rare.<\/p>\n The now-signed amendment (Act 859<\/a>) notes that “‘Collegiate athletic event’ means a sporting or athletic contest, event, or practice of an individual or team of individuals. …”<\/p>\n Weaponry has no place at a game or practice of an SEC tiddlywinks<\/a>\u00a0game, that being the primary thigh-high sport. Tabletop croquet<\/a> is the other dominant sport.<\/p>\n This is not because rage — or rage fueled by youth, lost youth, intoxicants or a combination — is likely. In tabletop sports, the concern is repressed rage, which almost by definition is even more unpredictable than spontaneous anger.<\/p>\n By the way, the motto of our\u00a0tabletop croquet team\u00a0is “the stakes are so small<\/a>.”<\/p>\n The campus exception besides fields of play are medical schools, because having handy health-care students, interns and residents — already wearing\u00a0lab coats — defeats the remote possibility of an amateur gunslinger wounding not killing the human target outright, docs increasing the possibility for survival.<\/p>\n Licensed concealed weapons holders also may not carry into the state’s primary inpatient public psychiatric facility, the State Hospital<\/a>, even though a vast majority of the Arkansas’ certifiable don’t live in the 226-bed institution but roam about freely.<\/p>\n “More than 220,000 people have concealed handgun licenses in the state,” The Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Suite 248 welcomes everyone, sane and otherwise, if all you plan to wield is a smile. Players of course wield\u00a0squidgers with which to propel the\u00a0winks.<\/p>\n This new law or amendment, signed April 3<\/a> by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, stipulates that the management of collegiate athletic facilities must submit a security plan with the Arkansas State Police to apply for the exemption. The sporting event gun ban lasts one year, having been filed no less than five days before a sporting event, then a renewal can be sought.<\/p>\n As the coach\/athletics director\/facility caretaker, a draft of that document is forthcoming, and will be linked at this sentence<\/a>.<\/p>\n The state’s legislation is tied not to the physical structure but to the sporting event, metaphysically as it were. (An “event” happens in time, while objects appear in space.) As the r’Asadinks plays matches at odd times though 12 months a year, \u00a0the events are continuous, practices ongoing, so\u00a0Suite 248 must never allow weapons at any time, even if their owners\u00a0have had those few hours of active shooter training.<\/p>\n Although it was the inaugural sport for the Southeastern Conference, in the late 1890s, tiddlywinks is the 16th listed sport in the SEC<\/a>. This makes players, leadership and fans of both Arkansas and Deep State<\/a>\u00a0universities vulnerable.<\/p>\n To earn my coach’s salary, I will endeavor and persevere to keep my own office safe.<\/p>\n Continued, at Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n — \u00a92017 Ben S. Pollock Jr.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/del>My workplace\u00a0is eligible. Now that people with concealed weapon permits soon will be welcome to\u00a0roam armed throughout campus, barred only at qualifying athletic events, it’s time to out\u00a0my office.<\/p>\n![\"Entrance](\"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/248-750x1000-225x300.jpg\")
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