Remember some months ago when they de-throned Pluto from planet-hood? Remember how everybody complained? That really irritated me. Pluto isn’t, and never was, a planet. Pluto is a sham. Well, today I was listening to the Kojo Nnamdi Show* on my favorite public radio station and they were talking about the moons of Saturn and somehow they brought up “poor, old Pluto”. Poor Pluto? This has GOT to stop. Pluto is a biggish, cold rock and has no business orbiting OUR Sun.

I say we blow the blasted thing up. Let’s just fire a few ICBMs at it and be done with it. No more discussion. No more “but Pluto is a planet too”. We can just be free to live our lives in peace without having to worry about that con-rock. I blame Clyde Tombaugh. He invented that planet and the myth of the cute, lonely little planet that made kids so upset when real astronomers realized it wasn’t a planet at all.

You know what else? We don’t even have decent pictures of Pluto. Look at this one from Wikipedia:

Are you kidding me? And I bet if we don’t get rid of Pluto, some day its orbit will change to a collision course with Earth. Pluto is just an asteroid. Asteroids kill–that’s their purpose and Pluto is no different.

*It wasn’t actually Kojo doing the show. I don’t know where he was or what his problem is, but it was some other guy filling in for him.