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Obama Invites Members of Congress to Screening of Syria Missile Strikes

| 12 years

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WASHINGTON–Demonstrating a seldom-seen willingness to engage with members of Congress on a personal level, President Barack Obama invited lawmakers who vote “yea” on his proposed bombing of Syria to attend a bipartisan White House screening of that event. According to the White House, all 535 members of Congress have received a party-style invitation via email, Read More

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Republican Drive to Impeach Obama Focuses on His Biracial Status

| 12 years

Biff Scuzzy 455 Views 2 min read

WASHINGTON‐House Republicans, who have been accused of being racists for wanting to impeach President Obama, have issued their strongest denial of that charge to date. In fact, it is their first denial because Republicans who want to impeach the president know it’s pointless to deny charges of racism. A new impeachment-talking-points memo recently leaked to Read More

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Obama Unfriends Putin on Facebook, International Crisis Looms

| 12 years

Chip Hilton 500 Views 2 min read

WEST CHESTER, Pa.–The Pug Bus learned overnight that President Barack Obama has unfriended Russian president Vladimir Putin on Facebook in retaliation for Mr. Putin’s offering temporary asylum to Edward Snowden. The news sent shock waves through the Facebook and international communities, triggering speculation of a return to Cold War status between the two nations. “This Read More

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Cornel West Reveals Where He Plans to Get Arrested Next

| 14 years

Biff Scuzzy 504 Views 3 min read

WEST CHESTER, Penna. – Cornel West is on a roll. The silver-tongued, fuzzy-headed, musty-looking Princetonian has been arrested twice in the last seven days. What’s more, according to a communication he sent to this website yesterday, he hasn’t taken his last ride in a paddy wagon yet. Dr. West, 58, emailed a list of his Read More

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President Obama Threatens NBA Players Who Sign with Foreign Teams

| 14 years

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama said today that National Basketball Association (NBA) players who sign with “foreign teams” during the current NBA lockout will be taxed heavily for their “selfish, un-American behavior.” Speaking from his all-weather, solar-heated basketball court at the White House, the president said he was “tired of American businessmen moving jobs Read More

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Bush Surprised by Visit to Iraq, Thought He Was in Texas

| 14 years

Chip Hilton 500 Views 2 min read

AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq – President Bush made a surprise visit to the Al Asad Air Base in the Anbar province of Iraq Monday morning. “Shit yeah, it was a surprise all right,” said a top White House aide under promise of anonymity. “We told him he was going to Texas. You should have seen 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