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...

So, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Martin Luther King Day just passed. Well, it wasn’t actually the twenty-fith anniversary everywhere in the U.S. Signed into law by Reagan in 1983, only twenty-seven states recognized the first instance of the federal holiday in 1986. Arizona has the dubious distinction of being the forty-ninth state to recognize the holiday. In 1986, with his eyes on a presidential run, then Governor of Arizona, Bruce...

The following entry is the “SFW” (i.e., PG-13) version of: This Blog Entry Has Been Rated NSFW What is “age appropriate” viewing? Who determines when you can see what? Let’s begin with some representative vignettes. The first from the print-centric paradigm of my youth. When I was a teenager in the seventies, growing up in the South, there were visible, physical boundaries marking what was fit for consumption by...

What is “age appropriate” viewing? Who determines when you can see what? Let’s begin with some representative vignettes. The first from the print-centric paradigm of my youth. When I was a teenager in the seventies, growing up in the South, there were visible, physical boundaries marking what was fit for consumption by those who were “under aged.” At the back of the local used paperback bookstore, a curtain...

In Part 1 on Virtual Communities and Embodies Realities, I moved from Tyler Clementi’s virtual community on justusboys.com to the embodied community of his dorm. In Part 2, I will focus on a number of embodied communities at Rutgers and then, in the remaining posts in this thread, I will continue the discussion of Clementi’s correspondence with his virtual community. Here are a handful of examples of local efforts at Rutgers to...