This story (page 1 of Friday’s WSJ) takes the cake.  And it’s the last line that sums up why I’m frustrated by it:
We just want to make it [English] a little easier to spell.
Changing the spelling of words to be phonetically exacting is just wrong.  That way, you don’t have to know to spell “there”, [...]

Anyone that knows me knows how strongly I pay attention to the words we use and understand them by their defined meaning. In my opinion, it is antithetical to accept word usage alone as the means for understanding a word’s meaning, such as the (to me) crass usage of “insure” to mean “to make [...]