postcards from the pug bus

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Author: philmaggitti

Religion

Pope Francis OK with Miley Cyrus Remark

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VATICAN CITY–Pope Francis told the website Hunger TV that people should not be so quick to condemn Miley Cyrus for saying she didn’t want some “seventy-year-old Jewish man that doesn’t leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear.” Speaking via Skype, his holiness said, “The

Religion

Chinese Altar Breads Flooding American Market

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WEST CHESTER, Pa.–The ultra-competitive altar bread market has been thrown into a cocked miter by the emergence of Chinese players in this sacramental arena, but at least one of their American counterparts does not seem inclined to turn the other cheek. “We are a Christian nation, and they have the audacity to

News

Pennsylvania Governor Compares Same-Sex Marriage To Incest

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HARRISBURG, Pa.—During an interview broadcast yesterday on CBS 21 News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Republican Governor Tom Corbett was asked by anchor person Sherry Christian about a statement made by his lawyers comparing the marriage of a gay couple to the marriage of a pair of twelve-year-olds. Gov. Corbett, 64, who

Sporting Life

WNBA Finals Will Proceed Despite Government Shutdown

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NEW YORK–Proving once again that it is capable of meeting any challenge, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) announced today that it will hold its championship series as scheduled, beginning this Sunday in Minneapolis, despite the current government shutdown. “We know that a lot of people may have been distracted

Pug Bus Pop Quiz

Lights Out Light Bulb Quiz for Dummies

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WEST CHESTER, Pa.–Every so often one comes across a statement that makes the hairs on the tops of one’s toes stand up. “It’s time to start thinking about light bulbs the way we think about appliances” is one of those statements. Say again? Think about light bulbs the way we

Innerviews

God Declares “Atheism Is Dead”            

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NEW YORK–In an exclusive interview with The New York Times Book Review, God declared confidently that atheism is “deader than the Dead Sea Scrolls” and atheists have only themselves to blame. Although he was a few minutes late for the meeting—”I thought I was supposed to be at The New York Review of Books“—God

Politics

Obama Orders Name Change for Tomahawk Missiles

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WASHINGTON–Although he has not been able to persuade Congress to give him permission to bomb Syria, President Obama demonstrated yesterday that a president, no matter how beleaguered, still has some juice up his sleeve. In a brief ceremony held in the Rose Garden, the president issued an executive order changing

Technology

Rosetta Stone Releases Pig Latin App for iPhone 5s

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ARLINGTON, Vir.–The buzz around Apple’s new iPhone 5s just got louder. Rosetta Stone®, the world’s leading, computer-based, language-instruction company, announced the release of its new Pig Latin App in time for the iPhone launch on Friday. The app, which provides full access to Rosetta Stone®’s ten-volume Pig Latin instructional set,

Technology

Edward Snowden Reveals NSA Movie Piracy Techniques, Part 2

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 WEST CHESTER, Pa.–Previously on Postcards from the Pug Bus, Edward Snowden revealed that National Security Agency (NSA) employees who were supposed to be monitoring movie piracy were actually pirating movies themselves, on and off the job. As Mr. Snowden observed, private citizens do not generally have access to the NSA’s

Technology

Edward Snowden Reveals NSA Movie Piracy Techniques, Part 2

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WEST CHESTER, Pa.–Previously on Postcards from the Pug Bus, Edward Snowden revealed that National Security Agency (NSA) employees who were supposed to be monitoring movie piracy were actually pirating movies themselves, on and off the job. As Mr. Snowden observed, private citizens do not generally have access to the NSA’s