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Train Engineer Leads Passengers in Birthday Rap

This is a lot of fun. My wife thinks the rapper is so cute.

It's or Its: A Review

Once again, friends- "Its" only has an apostrophe when being used as the contraction for "it is." When being used in the possessive, it remains "its" without the apostrophe.
I see this grammatical error more than any other. "It's" everywhere: websites, articles, posts, titles, etc. Please put it out of "its" misery.

What's In a Name in This Global Society

The name on my birth certificate is Karl Miller Lugo. It's based on Spanish naming customs where the first (paternal name) name is Miller and the second (maternal names) is Lugo. I would be called Senor Miller or Miller Lugo.

That became problematic when I moved to the states at the age of 8 and everyone called me only Karl Lugo. It became so confusing, my grandparents actually changed my social security card to read Karl Miller and asked that Lugo be taken off my grade school lists.

Fast forward 30 years and now the Hispanic community is the fastest growing segment in the United States population. You would think perhaps we would have this whole Spanish surname thing figured out yet.

I don't hold out much hope after opening up my iPhone news apps this morning to see the Argentinian president's name listed differently in almost every article:

Kirchner

Fernandez

Fernandez de Kirchner

Since the Miami Herald and the LA Times have some of the largest Hispanic readerships in the US and they both went with Fernandez or Fernandez de Kirchner, I recommend we go with one of those. Sorry, New York Times and Christian Science Monitor.

And if we can't figure out Spanish surnames, imagine what we're doing to surnames from other nationalities.

We certainly had no idea how to spell Gaddafi, or Kadafi, or Qaddafi, or...

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October, 24, 2011
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Do We Need Congress In The Internet Age?

Do we need representation when we could represent ourselves at the click of a mouse?
If 2/3 of US supports passage of a bill, why should Congress keep it from happening?
What if we could vote on all the BIG bills proposed by our government or by the people?
Let's vote for ourselves and let true majority rule. Let's make democracy work. Let's give access to government back to the people.