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November 2025 Grab Bag o’ Humour

Kudos to Demi Moore for correcting the pronunciation of her name. It’s not Deh-MEE like we thought many years ago. It’s Duh-MEE as she corrected us. And it does take courage to correct the public.

Especially if you know that 10% of people are going to say DUH!-mee. As well, a further 25% of people are going to say Dummy or DUM-Ee.

Not to mention at least 1% will know her name is mispronounced but think its the second name. They will say Deh-MEE MOR or Deh-MEE MOR-Ay.

Correcting this pronunciation may be hard, but Duh-MEE can handle it.

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24 Sussex Drive is supposed to be the First address in Canada. But first one prime minister discovered that repairs could be delayed to curry favour with the public. Then the next prime minister did the exact same. So eventually we are left with a rotting structure that no prime minister has lived in, in recent memory.

Not to be outdone, Donald Trump tore down the whole east wing of the White House in the United States. He says he is going to build a grand ballroom where the east wing once stood. But we all know Trump’s taste is toward the more garish.

Now Trump has set a new precedent for the next president. Perhaps the next president will tear it down to build something they think is better. Or maybe they like garish and will live in the ballroom while tearing down the west wing of the White House. Symmetry might demand two garish sides to the White House.

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A few weeks ago, Elon Musk appeared on the Joe Rogan show and blamed immigrants for many things wrong with America.

“Musk and Rogan blamed immigrants for everything from budget shortfalls to democracy itself” said the article I linked to.

Elon Musk should know, himself being probably the most high profile immigrant in the United States. Tax his immigrant billions and I bet there will be no budget shortfall.

I wish all the problems of the world would be this easy to solve.

#24SussexDrive #budgetShortfall #demiMoore #donaldTrump #eastWingDestroyed #elonMusk #grandBallroom #immigrants #joeRogan #ottawa #pronunciation #thePublic #theWhiteHouse

Out in public, drinking local scrumpy at a food festival, listening to a bunch of sickeningly talented youths playing steel drums.

It's alright, despite the proximity to #ThePublic.

It's Monday. Hope y'all are having a day! ("Have a good day" seems like a lot of pressure in these times.)

I wrote a thing about
euphemism
the Left
doge
Musk
the destruction of the commons
and trauma.

Here's the first part:
the Lack in the Left
https://courtcan.com/2025/04/10/the-lack-in-the-left/

#euphemism
#theLeft
#doge
#ElonMusk
#theOther
#theLack
#thePublic
#theCommons
#trauma
#boundaries

For #journalism to be meaningful and successful news outlets need to think of people as #thepublic not the audience. One is a society of people, the other is a group of consumers.

#Newsdeserts #EngagedJournalism

@virginiaheffernan Such a mellow version. He has some lovely laid back phrasing.

I realize that the Hair 8-track helped lead me to work at #ThePublic (and taught me the words sodomy and fellatio.)

And the Santana album led me to “world music” and therefore #JoesPub

#markzuckerburg 🎧📡 vs
#ThePublic 🐿️🎧📡

#infosec