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A Barrel of Laughs at the Gastroenterology Office: You Can’t Photoshop This

| 3 years

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WEST GOSHEN, Pa.—When was the last time you had a good laugh in the gastroenterology office? A really good laugh, not some tight-ass snortle, but a full-on, stuff-coming-out-your-nose production? I didn’t think so. There’s more laughter at funerals than at the gastro’s. Of course people who attend funerals usually don’t spend the night before shoving M80s up Read More

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Pumpkin Spice Motor Oil: You Can’t Photoshop This

| 9 years

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WEST CHESTER, Pa.—What’s next? Beef jerky? Cabbage? Toothpaste? Kitty litter? Toilet paper? Condoms? Quiche? Marmite? Sushi? Goulash? Potato chips? Driveway sealer? Edamame? Marijuana? Edible underwear? Fish sticks? Hamburger Helper? Glasses cleaner? Umbles? FYI: According to the Chicagoist, “1996 brings the first reference we can find to pumpkin spice coffee, the beginning of pumpkin spice’s downfall.” © Read More

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What Would Nixon Do? You Can’t Photoshop This

| 9 years

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We were watching the Villanova-Temple game last night, half paying attention to an interview with a former Temple player, half poking around on our tablets, half sucking on a phatty, when what to our wandering eyes should appear but the accompanying image. “Holy fucking shit,” we sputtered, “that’s funny.” Then we got to thinking: what, Read More

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Colleges Offer Halloween Costume Counseling: You Can’t Photoshop This

| 10 years

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WEST GOSHEN, Pa.–Not content with declaring war on date rape, Columbus Day, free speech, men who urinate standing up, and other impediments to the establishment of the nanny state/matriarchal society, colleges have taken dead aim on Halloween, a day fraught with the perils of political incorrectness. The State University of New York at Geneseo and Read More

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All-White Diversity Philly Magazine Cover: You Can’t Photoshop This

| 10 years

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PHILADELPHIA—What do you get when a magazine runs a cover story about diversity in Philadelphia’s public schools and the photo of cherubic elementary school kids on the cover includes nary a brown, black, beige, tan, yellow, red, brindled, or burnt umber face—just seven cheerful white kids sitting on a low-slung brick wall, their iPhones and Read More

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Pope Gets His Ass Grabbed: You Can’t Photoshop This

| 10 years

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What sack! What glorious, unalloyed sack! Pope don’t support gay marriage? Pope thinks guy-on-guy reach-arounds are a sin? Gay dude gets cheeky with Da Pontiff’s right cheek. Considering the pope’s eighteenth-century views on women, it’s a wonder that the only chick allowed near His High and Mightiness in this photo didn’t yank the Papal Pee-pee Read More

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Flash Fiction

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Most articles, books, movies, TV shows, and foreplay are twice as long as they need to be. Therefore, Postcards from the Pug Bus is devoted to promoting flash fiction. If you ask ten different people what flash fiction is, you'll get twelve different answers. At the Pug Bus all of our flash-fiction pieces are 50 words: full stop. Anything longer is longer than it needs to be. Read on

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The Pug Bus Blog

Wherein our fearless editor in briefs, who turned eighty-two this year, holds forth and cracks wise about his disdain for soccer moms, feminists of both sexes, the evil that is Mick Jagger, the sorry-ass WNBA, the trans tyranny, the pronoun police, climate scolds, and other blots on the fucking landscape. Read on