The Star Attraction

I have to take a moment to say that I personally witnessed this, and it happened exactly that way. The concerned appeared very truly such, and it was a touching exchange. Even while observing such an act of kindness, however, I couldn't stop myself from thinking "That question must get really old." It's an oddly amusing question, because she is about as empowered as I've ever seen her. Bizzy is truly an inspiration, a person who brings joy and laughter along wherever she goes.

On that note, I wanted to shout out to one of my new favorite blogs, Semi-Charmed. This girl has been way too long without blogging. Check it out for yourself here. She tells it like it is, real life, no fluff...something we could all us a lot more of. Plus, she can flat turn a phrase.

Personally, I've been doing a lot of thinking...thinking about The Planets. In case you haven't heard, everything we learned in elementary school is now totally defunct...out the window. Mr. Wilson was wrong. We have 11 planets, not nine...8 "normal" and three dwarf planets. OK, I'm thinking. Wait a minute. First of all, haven't we all just recently been re-trained? Shouldn't it be "little planets?" Secondly, what about all the other millions of big rocks out there in the Kiper belt? We haven't even seen the half of them. How do we know there aren't more dwarfs out there...maybe even midgets?! Are we going to take in every stray dwarf and call them a planet now?

For the record, it's now: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Eris, Pluto.

And if you are having trouble remembering all of the newly discovered planets out there, this little fourth grader from Montana came up with a lame way of pulling it all together for you...something about an elephant on a magic carpet or some such ridiculous nonsense.

Let's just say it right here and now...Pluto, Eris and Ceres don't deserve to be memorized by millions of fourth graders. They don't deserve to even be questions in the St. Mary Trivia Tournament. They're Midget Planets, for crying out loud. They're tiny. There's something inherently wrong with them!

OK, ok, I know I'm going to catch some heat for this and some of you rock-huggers will say something [in your whiny, bleeding voices] like...

"Just because they're not normal sized doesn't mean they don't matter."

Or "Just because they're not like Earth doesn't mean they don't participate in our Solar System."

Blah, blah, blah.

Well...I'm saying just that. They don't. They're sub-standard. They're not right. They're just plain weird, and nobody wants them around. End of story.

Next thing you know they'll be calling our boy Mercury a dwarf, and we can't be having that with the Gary Coleman of our Solar System...our literal star attraction.

Namaste