if I get a good response, I might start doing these on the blog regularly

My comedy-writing class required me to write a Letterman-style top ten list. So, here it is:

The Senate voted 90-9 to approve a ban against the use of torture by the US government, while Vice President Cheney has led the fight against the ban, saying that Congress shouldn't interfere with "what we are trying to do to detain and interrogate the worst of the worst." Other pieces of legislation Cheney has come out against:

10. ASPCA ban on forcing Dobermans to wear hoods and lay naked in piles

9. Arbor Day

8. Pear County, Texas' city council resolution to recognize school lunch lady Yolanda Evans for forty-five years of food service

7. The Treaty of Ghent

6. Ban against use of electric shock in underperforming public schools

5. Public health bill providing first aid for citizens with gushing head wounds

4. Resolution against submitting Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) to additional "swishies" in Senate men's room toilet.

3. Amish Country guideline against whipping with birch branches longer than height of child.

2. Daughter Mary's proposal that, at Thanksgiving, gay family members get to sit at the grownups' table.

1. The U.S. Constitution

Ba dump-bump? Hrm.