Quote of the Day
"As President, you're here to serve the people. And the people are not being served with this war."
-Hildi Halley
Meanwhile, in Space...
After long and contentious debate, the International Astronomical Union decided today that Pluto is not a planet. The first-ever official definition of a planet is ''a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.'' Since Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's, and since there are tens of thousands of similar objects in the Kuiper Belt, Puto is out of the club. The consolation prize is that Pluto, Charon, Ceres and bodies like the unoffically named Xena will now be called "dwarf planets."
Predictably, there are a lot of displeased people, such as the team behind the New Horizons probe, which launched toward a planet and will arive at a dwarf planet. Others, like space writer Robert Roy Britt are pleased with the compromise.
Basass of the Day
John from Minneapolis (via MeFi)
Quote of the Day
"You have two people goin' to screw in a bathroom on a plane and you know that there are some snakes on there... you know that when that tit comes out, you want to see a snake on that tit!"
-Samuel L. Jackson
Herve's Clone
Hey, I've been out of the loop for a while--sorry about that! I thought of you guys the other day when I was sludging through the Vortex of Neverending LA Traffic. I looked to my left at a stop light and I saw Herve's clone. I'm serrious, he looked just like him from when he was on Fantasy Island. It's either his clone or this poor kid's mom had no say so in the gene pool selection. I guess that is what she gets for procreating with Herve.
--Tammi
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