Meets two out of three criteria for planet-hood. The fact that it's in the Kuiper belt is immaterial.

If Pluto is not a planet, then how can My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies?

(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)

Easy: “My Very Educated Mother Just Spit Up Nogg.”

Bernie engaging in a bit of whataboutism!

Hey if Uranus is a stupid fucking Planet
so's Pluto.

Regardless, Planet's are very Over-rated:
we have one, we treat it like dirt.
Or, more a sewer.

I and my boyfriend attended the protest this morning at Seattle’s Archdiocese.

We got there around 0930, and saw two groups. One on a corner, of three people holding signs. Another. A smaller group, Wales walking around the parameter holding pride flags. By the time we parked and got to the sidewalk, a much larger gathering and joined the parade, looked like around 100 or so people. We marched to the front door, chanted a few slogans, listened to speeches.

The group seemed kind of low energy. I could tell these were not the usual protesters that show up at demonstrations in Seattle. Everyone was in Dockers and button down shirts. I started a few of the milder chants I knew from other rallies “Hey Hey, ho ho, homophobia has got to go”, “ Separate Church and hate”, “Gay,Straight, Black or White, Marriage is a civil right”. The crowd sustained them for a few minutes each, and then fell back into silence. Attendees looked awkwardly at one another, unsure of what one does exactly at a protest. Some made speeches. People were asked to clap, first if they attended Kennedy, then if they were Catholics, and lastly, if they supported LGBT people.

My boyfriend and I kissed and made out while the others answered the call of the mild. A lesbian couple with a cute dog came by and looked annoyed when I pet their dog.

Everything ended about 2 hours into it, and I drove to Everett with my bf to have lunch on Colby Avenue at an Irish pub.

@6 thanks for the report from the mild scene

Sadly, the oldest orangutan in the other Washington did not croak today.

@1 spunkbutter & @5 kristofarian: Agreed and seconded. Pluto is a planet. Science and climate change are real.

@8 dvs99: I am eagerly waiting for Trumpty Dumpty to go down, too. The sooner, the better. I keep envisioning in one snap of an alligator's razor sharp jaws in Mar-a-Lunatic, after attempting one last golf stroke deep in the clogged artery of Obstruction of Justice Swamp.
Channelling Wally Gator.........

@6 Wandering Star: Thank you for taking action and attending the LGBTQ protest. Kudos for answering the call to the mild.

@6: So it wasn't a typical public display of affection of a kiss but a drawn out make out session you and your boyfriend thought everyone around you should be privy to see?

11,

To be fair, we make out like that all the time, in public or in private, without regard to setting or company. Ever since we started seeing each other in July, we have tasted one another’s tonsils, everywhere from Olympia to Tacoma to Seattle to Everett to Poulsbo, in the presence of fellow diners, family, passers-by on sidewalks, fellow moviegoers, co-workers, protesters, priests, politicians, nuns, bar patrons, ferry riders, park rangers, museum employees, and restauranteurs.

I feel completely comfortable with him.

In case anyone here cares, my boyfriend has the best tonsils I have ever licked. I haven’t licked very many, but of the ones I have sampled, his are by far the best. That, and he’s beautiful. Probably the most beautiful human being I have ever met, or will ever meet. And sweet, and kind, and gentle, and very loving.

I am the luckiest son of a bitch on the planet. Why he puts up with me, I’ll never know. My worst fear is that at some point, I’m gonna wake up to find this whole thing has just been a dream. I’m happier than I ever have been in my life.

Seattle needs to fund a program for marginalized planets of color.

@13
WS - I'm very happy to hear about your boyfriend.
Best to you both!

Tough week for high profile zoo captives. If I die it better be in Fall, not just before Spring emerges after having endured months of cold and darkness.

Wandering Stars is a cisgirl. No PDA!

I still remember all the ridiculous outrage around the soda tax. And now that it worked, the libertarian/conservative outrage machine has jettisoned the issue. As it turns out, using taxes to discourage behavior and raise revenue actually works.

@18,
Tax soda because it contains high fructose corn syrup and then give those tax dollars right back to industrial farm corporations to grow more corn to make more... wait for it... high fructose corn syrup.

But the big picture is that as long as wealthy, multinational corporations keep wealthier and more powerful and poor people keep getting fucked then it's all working as intended.

/not a dig at you, a dig at our fucked up world

19, and what’s your solution, to mail somebody a pipe bomb?

@21,

Solution to what?