Shouldn't it be "think of how stupid the median person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider"

Judging by the quotation in the summary, we can presumably infer that someone who has been dead for less than two hours is only mostly dead. Interesting....

Nice try, except scientists have considered creationism. For instance, Stephen Jay Gould has written screeds analyzing creationism scientifically. The issue isn't a lack of consideration, but rather that such scientists have thoroughly refuted creationism. I actually wouldn't mind a series scientifically analyzing creationism in principle, perhaps along the lines of some of Gould's work, but I somehow doubt that such a public flaying would satisfy the good folks at AiG.

This looks eerily like the US justification for the Iraq War.

I hate to ruin your little libertarian fantasy narrative, but there are private and charter schools in the United States, so it's not a government monopoly by any stretch. A "government monopoly" would more closely resemble the situation in Taiwan, which is one of the countries discussed favorably in TFA, where the schools are all run by the Chinese Ministry of Education.

I have no idea what planet this idea came from.

The United States actually scores very low in indices that measure social mobility. Moreover, this study finds that in the US out of all the sampled countries, one's PISA score in science is more likely than any other country to be influenced by parental background.

You sir have obviously never met us Americans.

Doesn't everybody use Beamer nowadays?

With a Japanese power company managing the project, what could possibly go wrong?

It's not outside the realm of plausibility. Three out of five only comes out to a brain and a half in total.

Given how absolutely awful MSNBC and CNN are, it's no surprise that so many people prefer Fox News. Cable news has been in a race to the bottom for quite some time now.

IRS and NSA resources being put to good use!

There, I said it. While I still prefer Gnome's integration with the OS to other alternatives like KDE or ICE, I stopped using Gnome as my primary desktop environment a long time ago. (I use sawfish as my primary because of the easily scriptable lisp backend and REP loop.). I usually keep a Gnome session active on a different ttty for the rare occasion that I want to use some of the added functionality that it provides, but this is pretty rare these days.

You had me until this point.

At least not for a very long time. Long before you have reached Europa, the radiation will have cooked your brain and reduced you to a jibbering idiot (assuming you survive at all).

Just because someone, through no fault of their own, is hideously disfigured, lives under a bridge, and collects levies from unsuspecting travelers on pain of dismemberment does not give us the right to call that individual a "troll". This is a clearly racist epithet.