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Math, Gravity, and Speed Limits Reek of White Supremacy

| 5 years

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WEST GOSHEN TWP, Pa.—Brooklyn College Professor of Math Education Laurie Rubel proclaimed recently on Twitter that the mathematical equation 2+2=4 “reeks of white supremacist patriarchy. The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH.” Professor All Caps, for whom 2+2 has not equaled four in a long Read More

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National Dark Web Day,℠ How to Celebrate

| 6 years

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Gimme a D … gimme an A, and an R, K … a capital “dub” … and an E,B, too. What’s that spell? What’s that spell? What’s that spell, you deaf mother-fucker? Dark Web, that’s what; and if you ain’t been there, Skippy, you ain’t shit. As a good buddy of ours once said, “It’s Read More

Book of Daze Politics

National Wishbone Day, the Woke Person’s Thanksgiving℠

| 6 years

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What we casually refer to as Thanksgiving should properly be called You’re on Indian Land Day; but who wants to put up with drunken relatives, tryptophan poisoning, holiday traffic, shitty football, and severe gastric distress to celebrate a land grab that doesn’t merit celebrating? Let’s talk about wishbones instead. Their story is less freighted. There’s a wishbone offense Read More

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BLM Declares National White Chocolate Day Racist

| 6 years

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WEST CHESTER, PA—Black Lives Matter (BLM) plans to interrupt tail-gaiting parties at several NFL games this afternoon to protest the celebration of National White Chocolate Day, observed each year on September 22. BLM Minister of Information Rashieel Watson-Korengi told Postcards from the Pug Bus that the protests were long overdue. “Crackers been celebrating that white Read More

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Black Lives Matter Calls for Boycott of White Avatars

| 9 years

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NEW YORK—D’Aryll Scott-Jones, HMFIC of Black Lives Matter, called for immediate boycotts yesterday of all websites “that allow white supremacists to hide behind blank, lily-white avatars in their comments sections.” Mr. Scott-Jones made his remarks to National Public Radio’s Terri Gross. “White avatars allow bigoted crackers to spew their venom while hiding in plain sight,” Read More

Innerviews Politics

Barack Obama’s “Other” Half Is a White Nationalist

| 9 years

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WEST CHESTER, PA—Barack Hussein Obama, America’s putative first black president, is a man who knows how to sell a contradiction; but just as no man is a hero to his valet, Barack Hussein is no hero to his white half, who prefers to be known as Barry, the name Barack Hussein preferred before he discovered his Read More

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