Vile wrote:
] Who is the idiot that dubbed it "the Hobbit." I didn't see
] that in the articles on the subject that I read yesterday.
] What an awful world we live in where science takes gay-ass
] fairy movies and mines their vacuous depths for serious
] scientific monikers.

The 'idiot' would be one of the discoverers. Take a look at the Nature article.

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/pf/4311029a_pf.html

RE: 'Hobbit' joins human family tree