Update: Neil deGrasse Tyson Responds...Brilliantly

Yesterday I wrote about how easy it is to annoy a conservative, concluding that from Tiaras to Cosmos, it's all offensive to the far-right.  You can read that post here. 

Update:  
President Obama chose to ignore the vitriol posted about his posing with a Girl Scout troop while wearing a tiara.  In one genuine, warm and supremely human moment, he gave these five little girls a memory that will last a lifetime, and the far-right responded with their usual hatred.  Acknowledging their vileness would be pointless.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, however, did respond to those who took offense over his Christmas morning tweets.  And he did it brilliantly: 

 "My sense in this case is that the high rate of retweeting is not to share my enthusiasm of this fact, but is driven by accusations that the tweet is somehow anti-Christian.  If a person actually wanted to express anti-Christian sentiment, my guess is that alerting people to Isaac Newton's birthday would appear nowhere on the list.  Going to post about Earth's perihelion in the New Year.  Just a head's-up in case people want to avert their eyes over that one."

Personally, I'm going to spend the next few days looking forward to finding out how Mr. deGrasse Tyson will make "perihelion" funny.

And, Mr. President, my tiara is ready when you are.