There's way too many places with the same name, and somebody needs to do something about it

 Right as I type these words, it's 3.42 in the afternoon and I'm in an Amtrak NorthEast Service train stopped at the Newark stop. Newark, Delaware, that is. And not the Newark, New Jersey which itself is often confused for new YORK, new YORK far too often. Noo yaahk they say you don't know if it was new york or newark but you don't want to be an asshole or the stupid foreigner tourist who doesn't know wth is happening so you politely not and smile pretending to understand and oh how you've played yourself, you've played yourself and you're stuck in the Industrial part of a state not specially known for its scenic beauty. I don't want to be mean to people or places or things but there's a reason that end of the Garden State is called the armpit of the Northeast. 

Cos' it's smellllyyy, gettit?

Back to the original topic, what's up with all those Newarks, and several dozen Springfields, Medfords, Dovers, and what not. There's even Lebanon and Delhi's in here. Cairo, of course, famous town in Ohio or Illinois. And the biggest scam of all, Portland. The settlers in the West missed the Portland in Maine, and named a whole bigass -- was it a mining town, ever? somebody do the research for me here, possibly a logging town in the olden days -- town in the great State of Oregon after it. And now when you say Portland, you have to explain you're talking about Maine and not Portland.

Don't even get. me. started. on the stupid confusion caused by Washington the District of Columbia that happens to house the U.S. government and has no representation in either of the houses -- territory motto, this is true, 'taxation without representation' -- and the state right to the south of Oregon whose major city happens to host four massive bigass engineering and technology companies, but they don't seem to get any sunlight whatsoever. Also I'm going there in two weeks.

Can people not get more creative with the names so we can avoid the confusion? Must we really insist on repeating white dudes' names over and over again in every territory and state and county all over and create this whole big mess. Why can't there be a cleaner way to do things?

Again, I'm not a rebel. I'm asking questions only to make life better for everybody. Don't shoot the messager okaay.