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Things are not looking good for Pluto. The definition of a planet that was initially proposed (essentially, it's round) pissed a lot of astronomers off, so another definition was proposed that would de-planetize it. Well, that sucks!!!!!!!! Folks have mentioned that if that did happen, not only would the Animaniacs song about the planets be impossible to sing, but that the public would probably retain it's own definition of planet that included Pluto, in the same way that the public thinks 'acceleration' means 'speeding up' while to scientists it means speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction. Regardless of what the scientists decide, it looks like the public (the fraction of it that cares at all) wants to keep Pluto as a planet. Considering that this is not the public against reality, rather a difference in the arbitrary line that gets drawn to divide 'planets' from 'not planets', in this instance I am willing to side with the public. No takebacks, dammit!

Tim Krieder, my comrade on this issue, mentioned that some random guy (Colin Matthews) added a song about Pluto to The Planets suite by Gustav Holst called 'The Renewer'. Because iTunes has everything, I found this. It's got that weird, dissonant sound to it that a lot of music from that time, but it's cool.

In other music news, I heard a song on XM yesterday that I also found in the iTunes store. It's called 'Love Handles'. Yes, it equates food and love, and that's perilous for me, blah blah. But it's funny! If you can't laugh at your problems... ( lyrics )