Nice write up. You did skip over a lot (understandably). Just to add on, here are a few more...

I hate to nitpick in the face of a natural disaster of epic proportions, but this article is a grammatical disaster of epic proportions. Proofread, proofread, and then proofread a bit more.

Absolutely NOT true in most jurisdictions if the towing company is negligent. For example:

What a load of ...

I'll second that. How someone drives in congestion is an excellent indicator of general driving skill. The inability of (unfortunately most) drivers to keep a constant speed in traffic is a leading cause of the dreaded accordion effect. I do my best to damp out the accordion oscillations by keeping a steady speed and…

I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs would have had the iOS App Store team drawn and quartered by now if he was still around.

That is definitely difficult to watch.

Sorry to play the grammar nazi, but "seldom" is an adverb. I think "infrequent" is the adjective you were looking for...

The existence of life on Earth is pretty good evidence that the probability is > 0 (how much greater is unknown - but that's the point of the article).

I don't think they're ruining the party. Recent evidence suggests there are upwards of 10 billion terrestrial planets in our galaxy alone. So, even if the probability of any one of those worlds developing life is one in a billion, the aggregate probability that at least one other planet in our galaxy has developed…