Interviewer: I really enjoyed your last piece, “Well Endowed By Our Creator: Did George Washington Really Invent Viagra?” It got me thinking about how people use the phrase “our Founding Fathers” as shorthand for “I don’t like the present. Take me back to the past, as long as the past has plumbing, central heating, and cars.” H. Paunch: Are you talking about me? Interviewer: Our readers would like...

Poet Tracy K. Smith will read from her works, which includes the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winner Life on Mars, a collection of poems about her father, an engineer that worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.  Logging in with an email address Any users that log into Sakai with their full email address rather than a Rutgers NetID should use the Guest Login button. With blogs having become largely moneymaking enterprises, it’s sometimes too easy to...

A special guest editorial by text2cloud’s newest staff member: H. Paunch. Which is it: Presidents Day (no apostrophe)  Presidents’ Day (“s” apostrophe) or President’s Day (apostrophe “s”)? Some might argue for Presidents Day (option number one) on the grounds that the day is meant to recognize all the presidents.   Others–sticklers for the facts we might call them–will argue for...