From the New York Times:
University of California, Berkeley, a widely known hunter of planets around other stars, said in an e-mail message, “I am not attending the I.A.U. meeting, nor do I care about the outcome of any vote about whether Pluto and Xena are ‘planets.’ ”
“The universe,” Dr. Marcy added, “contains so much beauty and so many mysteries that we astronomers already have our hands full figuring out how it all came about.”
Finally, someone gets it.