I’ve read several news stories and blogs about Pluto being downgraded from “planet” to “dwarf planet” which has outraged many people. I say good riddance. I’ve always hated Pluto, thinking its better than the rest of the solar system, being all “stand-offish.” It got was was coming to it, you don’t want to join the rest of us? Fine! We won’t let you in our club.

OK, seriously, what I really wanted to say about it is this:
I think this is a good lesson in the nature of truth. Just because a group of astronomers change how we classify Pluto does not change what Pluto is. Pluto is what it is.
I can think Pluto is a large ball of twine floating at the edge of our solar system but that does not change the true nature of Pluto. Pluto remains what it is despite what anyone thinks it is.

And what is the deal with every news story ending with the astrology angle? Do enough people really take that stuff serious enough to warrent the international news agnecies commenting on it? And even if astrology wasn’t a load of “Barbara Streisand” how would no longer calling Pluto a planet change how it interacts with my aura or whatever that new age garbage is?

The 24 hour news media gets ahold of a story and they all sound the exact same, reporting the same thing from the same angle. I guess they work off the same press releases or something. It gets quite tiresome.
What do you think?