Proverbial

Heh:

Seven months after a conclave of scientists downgraded the distant heavenly body to a “dwarf planet,” a state representative in New Mexico aims to give the snubbed world back some of its respect. State lawmakers will vote Tuesday on a bill that proposes “as Pluto passes overhead through New Mexico’s excellent night skies, it be declared a planet.”

And remarkably, American society didn’t come tumbling down after such proposal, regardless of what local pundits might have said were it to happen here in Brazil.