postcards from the pug bus

postcards from the pug bus

lifting a leg on popular culture since 2004

. . . . . Only Jesus pardons more than Joe Biden . . . . . "The truth is hate to those who hate the truth." (Stormfront) . . . . . too many presenters on YouTube have faces made for radio . . . . . "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) . . . . . a level playing field lifts no boats . . . . . the best arguments against reincarnation are first grade and first wives . . . . . familiarity breeds . . . . . whether you think you can or you can't, you're right . . . . . song stuck in local man's head wants out . . . . . the unexamined life is not worth examining . . . . . well begun is, well, begun . . . . . if it's statistically impossible, it's impossible . . . . . no one gives a shit about your pronouns . . . . . as one gets old, old times' sake is the only sake left . . . . . less is more only if more is out to lunch . . . . .
News

Guido Barilla Announces New Regina Brand Pasta

Biff Scuzzy 425 Views 3 min read

PARMA, Italy–Guido Barilla, chairman of the Barilla Group, the world’s leading pasta manufacturer, announced yesterday that his company plans to introduce a “boutique” pasta line known as Regina early next year. A pun on an Italian slang term meaning queen or homosexual, the Regina brand will cater to “the type of people—reginas and lesbiche—not permitted in traditional Barilla advertising,” said Read More

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 think about appliances? You mean Read More

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 had his A game with Read More

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 the name of the Tomahawk Read More

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, has been redesigned for business Read More

News

Study Links Obesity to Increase in Cyber Crimes

Biff Scuzzy 436 Views 1 min read

FOSTER CITY, Ca.–A study conducted by the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) reveals that obesity is no longer an impediment to committing crimes such as bullying and sexual harassment. The availability of high speed Internet connections now puts these and other “mobility-friendly” crimes within the reach of obese and even morbidly obese people Read More

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 kind of mind-fuck computer power; Read More

Technology

Edward Snowden Reveals NSA Movie Piracy Techniques, Part 2

philmaggitti 405 Views 2 min read

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 kind of mind-fuck computer power; Read More

News

Duquesne Students Creeped Out by Geraldo Rivera Selfie

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PITTSBURGH, Pa.–Duquesne University students circulated a Facebook petition early last week, urging school administrators not to allow Geraldo Rivera to participate in an upcoming panel discussion marking the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination. By week’s end the petition had been signed by more than three thousand students, 30 percent of the total graduate and undergraduate Read More