Before I Forget…

George Carlin passed away on June 22nd 2008. The following clip is from the Imus In The Morning Show on June 24th 2008. The clip is from a December appearance on the show.

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Hilarious, man.  The Starbucks line had me spittin’ up coffee all over my keyboard.  This is one crazy MF here, folks. 

Laughed long and hard on these 2 videos….

President Bush now says he does not care about … the nuclear program, as long as they’re not developing a “nuculur” program.

Pluto’s out.  Orbit’s way too elliptical for planetdom.  Neptune’s elated at new title of farthest planet.  Star Trek science rages on.  Excerpts of the article in the Financial Times entitled “Pluto no longer planet after astronomers rejig solar system” (deliberately filed in A&E category) -

Pluto lost its official status as a planet yesterday, when the International Astronomical Union downsized the solar system from nine to eight planets.  Although there had been passionate debate at the IAU general assembly meeting in Prague about the definition of a planet – and whether Pluto met the specifications – the audience greeted the decision to exclude it with applause.  The solar system now has eight bodies – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – which meet the new IAU definition of a planet: “A celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.”  Pluto is disqualified not because it is considerably smaller than the eight classical planets but because it has a highly elliptical orbit.  Pluto is usually, but not always, further from the sun than Neptune.  The latter can now reclaim the undisputed title of the “outermost planet” which it lost in 1930, when Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto and immediately claimed it as a planet.  Instead Pluto becomes the prototype of a new category of “dwarf planet”.  Other members of the group include the asteroid Ceres and UB313, an icy object slightly larger than Pluto and even farther from the sun…..Pluto’s demotion will not affect the mission of the New Horizons spacecraft, which the US space agency Nasa launched this year on a nine-year journey to explore Pluto and its moons.

Reference : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/906b262a-3394-11db-981f-0000779e2340.html