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On January 2, 2007 Bret Bielema and Gus Malzahn met each other in the Capital One Bowl between Wisconsin and Arkansas. These two coaches would go on to become controversial champions of two opposing styles of offense: the pro-style vs. the spread. This is a narrative look back at that fateful game. If you missed part one I recommend that you read it here: An opening battle in the war for college football's offensive soul: Houston Nutt Can't Run and Bret Bielema Loves Fullbacks

Nutt v. Malzahn ; Dick v. Mustain

On Arkansas’s third drive of that Capital One Bowl, they did something odd: they switc

In 200(7), two coaches faced off in a fateful bowl game. These two coaches would come to exemplify two opposing offensive philosophies in the college football landscape of the 2010s: pro-style and spread. Both coaches would become controversial or generate huge amounts of hype for very different reasons, but after the 2006 season they met each other with their two teams: the Wisconsin Badgers and the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Houston Nutt Can’t Run

On January 2, 1978 Houston Nutt was sitting on the bench while Lou Holtz’s Arkansas Razorbacks destroyed the Oklahoma Sooners 31-6 in the Orange Bowl. Coming into the game, Oklahoma had hopes for a national championship--both Arkansas and Oklah

Slapping ensues!

For context: In the Mobile Suit Gundam fandom there is an (in)famous moment in the original series where a character named "Bright" slaps the teenage protagonist for refusing to fight. This moment has become a meme within the fandom and is referred to as the "Bright Slap." This is intensified by the fact that in the sequel series people seem to get slapped even more.

One user has a problem with the perception of the Bright Slap, however, and makes the argument that it is "bad leadership." This turns into an extended and barely relevant argument about memes, accuracy, and ma

I just wanted to share something that gave me such a spark today. My school has been really rough this year. A lot of failing students that don't seem to care about their failures, abysmal attendance, a lot of disrespect being thrown my way, general school-wide disorganization. It's just been really tough.

Today, the seniors decided it was time to have their senior skip day. And as a teacher who only works with seniors I knew that this would typically be a day where you kind of have to throw up your hands and say "Well, not much is going to be done today."

In one class I had two students show up. I knew that one of the students (an IEP student) was enrolled in an online program that would

So many people have pointed out in various places that the 0914-137 seemingly refers to a Bible verse. A 14 word verse, numbered 9, from chapter 137. This seems be Psalms 137:9. Many people have pointed out that the text of this verse refers to infants: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." (King James Edition.) But who is the he and who is the thy who the little ones belong to? This verse is the final verse in the chapter in question, so let's look at what this chapter is about. I will refer to the New Revised Edition for better comprehensibility, but it should be noted that the verse in question is 14 words in the King James (the most important

Daedalus:
What was your best invention?

The Labyrinthine walls hiding
Your king's wicked rites?

The rocket-boosted wings which, riding,
Made your son a sky-high Challenger?

Or the hollow heifer
made so Pasiphaë'd be
slut-fucked^1 while her
bull-cucked man
plucked girl-cunts
with his rot-cock?^2

That pollution the least?
Your queen's bull-torn gash
and the biform twisted babe
slid out?

Explanatory Notes:

1. Pasiphaë, the wife of Minos, was said to have been cursed by Poseidon to lust achingly for a white bull. To ease her sexual pains, Daedalus constructed a wooden heifer with which Pasiphaë could conceal her form and present her

Bacchus^1 rising/dolphin flying

Hulls all knocking
Ships all rocking
White caps chopping
Rock wall shores

Naxos^2 gray like
Boston coast
With Ariadne^3
Comfy brown
Soft hips
With billowed fatty gripping bits
And Bacchus bubbles
The girl’s troubles^4
Away in cups
And latex
And bottles
And pipes
And cans.

Edit: Explanatory notes (if needed):

1: The Roman name for Dionysus: the god of wine, hedonism, and partying.
2: An island in the Cyclades: an island group in the Aegean sea southeast of Attica.
3. The daughter of King Minos and half-sister of the Minotaur. She assists Theseus in escaping the Labyrinth by providing him a spool of golden thread.

I apologize if this is a faux pas, but I was hoping to dig into my notebooks to find some of my favorite attempts at haiku I've made in the past few years and see if I could get some overall feedback regarding my haiku ability. My haiku is not generally the syllabic kind here, and also some of the earlier ones are not totally in line with the soul of haiku either. That starts to get a little better later on. Anyway, here they are, in order of composition:

When a hundred grackles
cry
one only hears din

Blackbirds flash red wings
as they swing from ditch to ditch,
scrounging

Spring: Heavy drops knock
blossoms from my tree;
grass peppered pink

March snow embraces
roots and

Phaethon! You drag 'cross the heavens burning!
Burning: radiant, pell-mell, zig-zag flamestreak
wilts clouds and sets salt-rich waters churning,
bubbling, boiling til parched valleys so bleak
stretch out from shore past mortal reckoning.
This is betrayal of your kind: this wild
grab at His godly glory beckoning.
As Semele's desire sundered her child
from her womb then smoldering 'pon the ground
and left that merry sot in hands lech'rous
when Jove in that lady's smoking ashes found
a future-man wine-drowned-dumb and treach'rous,
so have you found ruins in your dreamscapes.
Yet who in these dull and crowded places
has not turned heart toward far, shining shapes
th

Hey guys, I'm a young 10th grade teacher and my school is beginning to implement a regular club day starting in the second semester that will occur at the end of the school day. I started a board gaming club and have begun to implement what the structure of it will be and have kids signed up. I have students who will manage the inventory of the club, students who will stock the games, and a student who will be a resident rules expert.

What I really need is some suggestions of possible board games to get for the club's collection. While we are calling for donations from staff members and families, we're also having each student pay a small amount to buy more games.

To give you an idea, I te

So I've hit my second big wall on my play through, and I had some questions for experience players but Help a Hollow doesn't seem to be around.

I've hit a wall on ornstein and smough. I've probably tried about 10 times which is the most I've played a boss on this play through, and I want to solo each boss my first time.

I have a dex build. Around 30 dex. Around 30 end. About 16 str. 14 faith to use astora's straight sword to go through Catacombs. Only about 18 vit.

Weapons are +10 uchigatana, +10 longbow. +5 halberd. +1 dark knight shield. +3 (I think?) Astora's Straight Sword.

I started out trying to kill smough first and just backpedal a lot with my bow, because I noticed it did good d

So I just got around to both reading and watching Inherent Vice (reading first) and I had some questions for actual Pynchon fans about the film and what they thought. Brief background. I have only fully read Lot 49 (years ago on a whim) and Inherent Vice. Gravity's Rainbow I read about 200 pages of and quit for whatever reason. In terms of postmodernist literature I have preferred Barth, DFW, and Barthelme (dear god Barthelme especially) over Pynchon, perhaps unfortunately. My interest in the film and book mostly came from a passing interest in Pynchon and a love of PTA films.

Unfortunately I think I prefer any other PTA film and Pynchon's book far above the Inherent Vice film. And I think

So I stopped reading the comics a few years back so let me know if anything has changed, but why haven't we really seen any group of survivors using domesticated animals to much of an extent? It seems strange.

We have seen horses being used and it being shown that zombies eat animals too, making them a bit less of the ideal transportation that they would seem to be.

But have we seen any walled off group keeping livestock? I don't recall. It seems pretty obvious that if you were in it for the long haul you would want to start raising animals.

And then dogs. So far we've just seen abandoned dogs run amok or dogs being shown as a liability and a luxury for coddled, safe people. But surely a