Just a slight variation on an earlier photo. No metaphors. No political comment. What a relief, eh?

But, speaking of silly comments, were you as amazed as I was by all the hoopla over the re-definition of the word "planet"? To read some of the papers you'd think that the law of gravity had been proven wrong. "Scientists Show, "'What Goes Up Doesn't Have to Come Down!'". Gees. "Planet" - it's a word, coined by humans (English-speaking humans, stealing from the French, who stole it from Latin), defined by humans, re-defined by humans. It's not a planet - a thing (whatever we might call it) existing in space (insofar as anything can be said to "exist") that we like to look at and think about a lot.

The problem with doing a little last minute surfing is that you find things like this: "And I suspect that what you'll see, Toby, is there will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered. Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses." —George Bush, speaking with reporters along the Gulf Coast, Gulfport, Miss., Aug. 28, 2006 (from the on-line magazine, "Slate".)

Remember, folks, this is the man in charge of the most powerful nation in the world. Terrified yet?