Left Pedal, the blog, has risen Phoenix-like out of the ashes.

Warning: semi work-safe bird-flipping images may occur.

Yes, it’s true. Pluto has been stripped of planetary status.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html

Time to ramp up the Charon isn’t a moon campaign — or maybe dust off the the moon isn’t a moon, instead an Earth Orbiting Object…

 Who’s with me?

It looks as if Pluto will be ‘unclassified’ a planet and ‘reclassified’ a Kuiper Belt object. Now, I’m all for greater knowledge and understanding, but isn’t this a bit of a waste of time?

I kind of feel like this would be the same thing as some group of alphabetologists informing everyone that the alphabet isn’t really ordered as well as possible and that all the vowels should be at the beginning for greater understanding. Possibly it would be a better system and more technically correct, but it brings up a tough question, is it worthwhile to re-categorize something . . .

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No one cares how I came to be in possession of a fortune cookie today, especially since the important part was the message inside:

Pure pleasure is found in

my own imagination running wild about what the rest of that fortune was meant to have said?

Conjectures welcome. Happy Friday.

I’ve been reading a lot about the ‘people powered’ election of Ned Lamont in Connecticut – how for once an election wasn’t decided by the special interested, well-moneyed, over-lobbied joecumbent, but instead a grassroots, collective, power-of-the-people, wisdom of crowds type effort by the voters in Connecticut. 

And what strikes me about it is that I resonate so strongly with that idea. Politics is so disturbing lately because it feels so out of touch from everyday life (even if it always has been, it feels decidedly more out of touch in the past decade). And it feels so combative, without any . . .

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