My last name was initially German and was Americanized when that side of my family came over. People butcher it regardless. Sometimes they give it a Spanish twist or pronounce it like an awkward sexual tryst.

My boss also has an extremely common name (common first name + Smith) and when he began flying after 9-11 he would always get the extra scrutiny. Apparently there are about 1000 people on the no-fly list with his name.

Under that same logic child rape porn should be legal because, well, it's better than the chester molesters going out and molesting their own children.

I wanted to reconnect with a friend I had a falling out with, so I went searching for him on the internet. Not able to find much on his name, I googled his phone number to see if he still had the same number. I found his number cached on a dead site where he said he was going to fly to California to defend a…