Yesterday Nate Goulding laughed at the New York Times editorial board for its self-important stance on the issue of whether Pluto should retain “planet” status in the Solar System (“No” was the NYT’s answer). Today, the Washington Post editorial board fires a photon torpedo of righteous anger at the NYT and the whole anti-Pluto movement:

TO ALL THE astronomers who voted in Prague this week to demote our solar system’s smallest planet to the status of “dwarf planet” we ask: What do you know? Ask any third-grader how many planets there are. Nine. Ask whether Pluto is one of them. Of course it is. Ask them whether they care how a bunch of telescope jockeys voted. Of course they don’t. So there.

Sixers blogger Greg Pollowitz e-mails: “It might be only me, but I believe the WaPo editors just called the Times editors dumber than third-graders.”