Another 25 Things feature

This one is worth reading. It's by Michael Kruse of the St. Pete Times, a supremely gifted writer and a good guy to boot. And he's not even 30 years old yet.

Running for president

More from Joe Blundo, mostly from last year before the election.

Humor columns

Read these columns for Tuesday's class.

Joe Blundo, from the Columbus Dispatch, on the Super Bowl.

And here is Blundo on the new president.

Nothing beats reading about colons, so here is Dave Barry from about one year ago.

And Barry on the inauguration.

Why don't you all look for a good humor column as well.

Pearls Before Breakfast

Read this for Thursday's class. Try and pick out all the research that went into the piece, and think about how Weingarten went about doing that research.

This story won the Pulitzer for feature writing last year. While you don't have to read the Saul Pett piece, skim it and then compare the two.

We'll talk about this on Thursday.