Great class today. I'm so heartened by your column ideas, which run the gamut from business ideas (bring German car production to the U.S.) to sports (has Pete Rose had his dues, for Pete's sake?) to whether student activities fees are being fairly allocated. Lots of great ideas here. For the sake of fairness, here are a couple of other ideas for editorial columns that I've got:

* Should Wittenberg consider including nursing in its curriculum? (This would allow more students to graduate with a very practical degree they can actually use in the real world.)

* Should community service for students be mandated? Can you "make" a student want to serve the community or should it be voluntary? What are the pros and cons?

I will be looking over your column ideas on your blogs and commenting on them. Great class today!

OK, that first blog was a little irreverent and I shouldn't have used that one particular not OK word. (Self-censorship creeping in!) Truly creative people don't have to resort to gutter language, right?

Hello, all. Today we embark on a wonderful adventure in our journalism class. We're going to be using our blogs to have a deep and meaningful conversation about opinion writing. You know what they say about opinions. They're like assholes. Everybody's got one.