Non Life-Altering Things I'd Like To See Happen

Following is a list of things that I would like to see happen. None of them would really affect my life much, but it just would be nice.

• Change the divisions in baseball: Why does the NL have two more teams than the AL? Why are there four teams in one division and six in another. This is just plain dumb. There are thirty teams and six divisions. Put an equal number in each division. Duh.
• Make all kids have to read the newspaper: This one is obvious. Too many people watch FoxNews to fins out what's going on in the world. Newsflash, people: FoxNews is not a news station, it is a news commentary station. Maybe if you read, you'd know the difference. If the first thing kids did in the morning was sit and read the local paper for fifteen minutes, maybe we'd have a smarter country down the road.
• Tell the truth about Christmas: No, I'm not talking about Santa. Besides, I believe in him (come Christmas time, maybe I'll explain). How many people know that the most famous person really born on December 25th was Jimmy Buffett. That's right, Jesus was born in the spring of BCE 04. We of the Christian-dominated world celebrate a pagan holiday called Saturnalia every year. There's nothing wrong with it. Just tell the truth.
• Start a "No Celebrities in the News" Week: The time betweem Easter/Passover and Memorial Day is typically slow. Let's have a week where celebs are beanned from the papers and television unless they are actually doing something. How refreshing would it be to be able to open a newspaper and not be forced to see what Britney bought her child, what Madonna donated to Kabbalah or anything Paris Hilton did.
• Create serious campaign anti-defamation law: I'm tired of watching the little TV I do and hearing about how a candidate is a fraud, supports anti-Semitic llama hunters and once called his own mother a pee-pee head. Stick to the issues. There should be a law where, if someone violates it, they must spend equal time apologizing (as in "I'm sorry") or be forced out of the running. Civility is a good thing. Watch the Britons govern. It's beautiful.
• Induct Black Sabbath into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: This is a stickler for me. They invented a genre of rock. They sold millions of records. They stand as one of the most influential bands of all time. The Sex Pistols and Ramones are in for punk. It's time to let heavy metal get it's due. Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill belong in the Hall.
• Make Constitution Day and Citizen Day a bigger deal: Our country's greatest strength is our Constitution (which, for all you Euro-philes, makes us an older nation than every contintental European nation). The holiday should be bigger. Also, Citizenship Day is a celebration of the great phrase E Pluribus Unum. This should also be recognized. As luck would have it, Constitution Day and Citizenship Day both fall on September 17, making for one nice extra holiday. The fact that it is also my birthday is irrelevant. Really.

So that's it for now. Nothing major. Just some things that would be nice if they were done.