FROM MY EMAIL: Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. In the ensuing government takeover, the State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes, and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.

My correspondent comments: "There were plenty of Ding Dongs already in Congress; not sure why they needed more!"