Three things were certain when Coyote was just a lad:
He was going to some day drive The General Lee
NO ONE could EVER beat up Mr. T
And PLUTO was a damn planet
And he may have aged and matured into the sensible, serious and professional writer that you see today (his words not ours), and have since outgrown such things as unhealthy obsession with Mr. T and the need to drive a flaming orange car. However he refuses to sit back idly and allow the world to de-planetize the Geek Home-world of Pluto.
Sure, it stayed at the edge of our solar system, barely ever drawing near and not exactly fitting in, but it was still an essential part of our flimsy little Styrofoam ball dioramas. Pluto might have seemed cold and distant when compared to the other planets, but maybe those planets constantly mocked him for being new and called him hurtful names like Dancula because he couldnt play in the sun with the rest of them during recess
but god damn it, it was STILL a frigging planet.
Pluto was the underdog, the little guy, the tough drifter with the heart of gold who might have seemed different, but in the end truly belonged. Out of all the planets, Pluto was the smallest, the strangest, and the geekiest which is why we loved it the best. Because if women are from Venus, and Men are from Mars, geeks set up shop on Pluto.
It's educational on so many levels. Read more at It's All Geek to Me.
