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[austin_tycho]

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...

Love Handles
Keller Williams

I'm packing the love
I've got it hanging off of me
It comes from above
I keep it down inside of me

It comes in different shapes and sizes
Lack of willpower, compromises
Lack of exercises
I'm packing the love

So if you need a hand hold
Baby you can take hold
Of my love handles
If you need to get your love on
Baby you can grab on
To my love handles
My love handles

I'm packing the love
I don't think its a bad thing
It keeps me warm in the winter
It makes me sweat in the spring
It's a double chin love
I have grown to accept it
I love the sweet taste of sweet-tasting love
It's so easy to digest it

So if you need a hand hold
Baby you can take hold
Of my love handles
My love handles
If you need to get your love on
Baby you can grab on
To my love handles
My love handles

Well the man on the TV tells me
I've got so much love I can stand to lose some
So I changed the channel
How could I survive without the sweet taste
Of sweet-tasting love
Up the river without a paddle

I'm packing the love
I got enough to go around
I've got so much in the country
I don't ever have to go to town

It comes in different shapes and sizes
Lack of willpower compromises
Lack of exercizes
I'm packing the love

So if you need a hand hold
Baby you can take hold
Of my love handles
My love handles

If you need to get your love on
Baby you can grab on
To my love handles
My love handles
More of me to love