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Postcards from The Pug Bus

Lifting a satirical leg on pop culture since 2004

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Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Comedy or Drama?

Marlene Babcock, 62, dental insurance appeals specialist

Allegedly laughing through the pain at 19 Last Laugh Lane, Scranton, PA

Comedy. I have enough drama in my life without paying fourteen dollars to watch somebody else's marriage collapse. If I want two hours of emotional devastation, I can call my sister and ask how Thanksgiving went.

Russell Pritchard, 56, municipal parking enforcement supervisor

Allegedly confronting the human condition at 404 Tragic Ending Boulevard, Akron, OH

Drama. Comedy encourages people to believe things will work out. Drama prepares them for reality. My favorite films end with everybody miserable and at least one person staring silently out a window. That is what I call an honest evening's entertainment.

Gloria Nettleton, 73, retired church organist

Allegedly awaiting the final curtain at 8 Mixed Emotions Circle, Peoria, IL

I prefer a comedy that gradually becomes a drama. That is how life works. Everybody starts out laughing, somebody makes a questionable decision, and before you know it the family is gathered in a hospital corridor discussing who gets the good china.

Satirical illustration of bowl games parade grand marshals featuring absurd characters on themed floats. Includes a Roomba tangled in Christmas lights, a puppet with a “Redemption Arc” sash, a Florida man riding a taxidermied alligator, an AI chatbot chanting slogans, a tumbleweed with a monocle and Bluetooth headset, a leaking animatronic scarecrow, a citrus fruit influencer banned from TikTok), a mime reenacting SEC violations with crypto mascots, and a holographic coach leading NFT interns juggling flaming footballs

"I love a parade."

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Bowl Games Parade Grand Marshals Alternate Suggestions

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Sports satire illustration of Caitlin Clark going in for a layup.

Caitlin Clark shooting a layup.

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Sports Satire: Caitlin Clark’s Reverse Tanking

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Sports betting illustration of a basketball super imposed over a roulette wheel.

Place your bets.

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NBA Embraces Sports Betting

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A basketball player in a teal jersey releases a free throw as the ball sails wide left of the rim, missing entirely, with the hoop and net clearly visible—symbolizing the absurdity and collapse at the heart of the NBA betting scandal.

"I really hope the feds weren't watching that."

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Fastbreak to Federal Court: The NBA Betting Scandal

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Illustration of sports fans’ patron saints with foam fingers, relics, a keg, and a working grill in mock-religious style.

"We will, we will, rock you."

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Top Ten Patron Saints of Sports Fans

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In this illustration of the NBA’s New Load Management Rules, a tired basketball fan sits in a team-decorated man cave, slumped in a worn recliner with a 24-ounce beer.

Taking a well-deserved timeout from yelling at the refs.

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The NBA’s New Load Management Rules for Fans

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Bad Bunny Super Bowl protest illustration, a surreal stadium scene where ICE agents in riot gear chase glowing pink holographic rabbits across a neon-lit football field.

The NFL’s halftime optics reach Kafkaesque levels as riot agents chase holograms across a stadium of chanting fans.

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Bad Bunny Super Bowl Protest, Yeah!

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A surreal scene from the Fantasy League for Intellectuals, where philosophers, poets, and failed academics gather in a haunted lecture hall for a spectral draft. Figures in tweed argue beside a chalkboard scoreboard tracking unread footnotes, despair density, and grant application ratios. Floating manuscripts and flickering candles illuminate the absurdity.

Draft day at the Fantasy League for Intellectuals, where despair is currency and unread footnotes are the MVPs.

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