Gawker reveals reality ignorance. Film at 11.

I sometimes read Gawker, a celebrity gossip site, because I enjoy the snark. They go too far sometimes (many times), but it's usually entertaining. And it's a gossip site, which means you can awaken any particular writer there out of a cold sleep and they'd still be able to recite Lindsay Lohan's daily measurements. So it's no shock that they don't know much about astrophysicists. It's an article about a crowd going to a book signing event by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium in NYC, author of many books, and frequent talk-show guest. I have no surprise that the Gawker writer didn't know who he was, since Neil's never hit a paparazzi, not been seen to do drugs after swearing he doesn't do them, or hasn't had massive plastic surgery. Neil is, though, kind of a big deal. He's hosted his own PBS series, been on Colbert ...