Since apostrophes aren't pronounced, getting rid of them will be no ill effect; let's just abolish the apostrophe.

Your suggestion has been made before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

Oddly enough there is classic research (Hartmann and Brewer 1976) linking sleep pattern to political opinion: they looked at people who needed over 10 or under six hours of sleep and found the short sleeper worried less about the world, less about the consequence of their actions and valued hard work and productivity, and general had more right wing views, the long sleeper were more creative, less focused and more liberal on issues like welfare. The article claims Einstein as a architypical long sleeper and Edison as the opposite.

Although there was some anxiety about the paper audit, the main problem people had in Ireland with electronic voting was that it was too damn fast. Ireland has quite a complex voting system, there are between three and five seats for each constituency and votes are transfered, either when someone is elected with more than enough votes, or when someone who hasn't a chance is eliminated. The counts take a day or so, with disputed seats taking much longer to resolve. When the results come in the government will be a coalition, there are two large parties, one medium party, some small parties and some independents. Even within parties there is quite a range of views. While the counting is going on there is tallying, people watch the sorting and guess the result and the period of the count is important as a time of reflection on the result, the different potential results, on the countries political direction and on the possible future governments. Even when one party does well, the final composition of the government is usually unclear until the end. In the last election but one electronic voting was trialled in a small number of constituencies and people hated it, to fast, no tallies, no rumours, the candidates told the results without getting used to some likely outcome. It seemed to injure the whole ritual of democracy and the idea of it happening everywhere in every constituency seems terrible. A lot had been spent on the machines and the count at the moment is quite expensive, so it took a while to admit the trial had failed, but failed it had.