mickey and goofy should go kick some ass

there is a conspiracy going on. no, i'm not talking about the freemasons (don't even get me started on that one), but rather the pluto-haters.

once again, there are people out there trying to take planethood away from my beloved pluto. people are trying to take all of his special, unique qualities and use them against him and i for one won't stand for it. sure, there are people alive today who remember a time when there were only 8 plants, but i tell you what -- 8 is not great.

it appears that the international astronomical union (the bilderbergers of spacemen perhaps?) are meeting next week to decide the fate of my beloved iceball as they try to come up with an official definition of "planet" . their proposed definition of a planet?:

A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet.

sounds all nice and dandy, right? whatever. with this new definition we would be getting 3 more planets, with the potential of having dozens if not hundreds more in years to come. oh, but don't worry. they won't all be planets planets. there'll be new planet categories like "small solar system body" and "pluton" in addition to the 8 normal "classical planets" -- and guess who's going to be shuffled over to the side. it's like they're intentionally trying to push pluto over into a side group which will be so overrun with random globs of matter in our solar system just so that he can get lost in the mess. oh, but they're trying to make it sound all nice, like, "well pluto, you're not one of us anymore, but you get the be the leader of all the little ones, isn't that nice?" well screw that. it'd be like having to move back to the kids table at holidays just because your uncle's table only has 8 formal chairs. pluto should just grab a kitchen chair and squeeze back in with the adults -- that's what i always do...