My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

An extract from an article from yahoo.news (Mon Aug 9, 7:58 AM ET):

Can You Name All 53 States?

Students learned that Congress had two houses -- the Senate for Democrats and the House for Republicans; that the U.S. flag had not been updated to reflect the addition of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico to the "original" 50 states; that the federal "administrative" branch oversees the Treasury Department (news - web sites); and that World War II occurred from 1938 to 1942.

There are 50 U.S. states, including Alaska and Hawaii, who are represented on the U.S. flag. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, not a state. There is no "administrative" branch of the U.S. government. The three branches are judicial, executive and legislative. World War II was fought between 1939 and 1945, although the United States did not enter the war until 1941.

The funny thing about this is that even though the article is written almost tongue-in-cheek they had to put the actual answers in the following paragraph. What does this say about the intelligence of the intended audience of the article? Who, one would hope, have actually gone to a school that teaches legitimate facts - or is that the problem? :)