Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 26, 2009

It should be “people’s self-respect”. “Peoples’ self-respect” would only apply if the intent was to describe the self-respect of entire populations (the German people, the Spanish people, the German and Spanish peoples).

Normally, the apostrophe comes after the final letter in plural possessives (“girls’ dresses, horses’ hooves”). Since “people” is already a plural, the apostrophe goes before the “s” in the possessive. Similarly, you have “men’s magazines”, “children’s toys”, etc.

Joe, those “reality talent” shows have little or nothing to do with reality OR talent.

Given that, who cares if the judges are qualified to judge talent? Given some of the mainstream acts out there, I’d say there is a major scale dearth of decent real talent scouts…