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Monday, September 11, 2006

"...affectionately sharing the name of California's most famous animated dog..."

Courtesy of this MetaFilter thread, I offer you California Bill Number: HR 36. Please go read it in its (modest) entirety. Here are Paragraphs 7 and 8:
WHEREAS, The deletion of Pluto as a planet is a hasty, ill-considered scientific heresy similar to questioning the Copernican theory, drawing maps of a round world, and proving the existence of the time and space continuum; and
WHEREAS, The downgrading of Pluto reduces the number of planets available for legislative leaders to hide redistricting legislation and other inconvenient political reform measures;
And here's a profile of the author, Keith Richman, as background.

Quite nice.