Postcards from The Pug Bus - Page 9 of 204 - Lifting a satirical leg on popular culture

Pope Leo XIV reads two homilies submitted by The Pug Bus, challenging him to distinguish between one written by a priest and one written by artificial intelligence.

"His Holiness studies the evidence. The machine wins on points."

Pope Leo XIV, Fails to Distinguish AI Sermon from Actual Priest’s Sermon

Pope Leo XIV, though not as insufferably woke as his predecessor, Francis the Whatever, shows signs of a leftward draw nonetheless. Recently Leo scolded priests… Read More

A woman surrounded by dozens of storage bins and totes in assorted colors and sizes bends to retrieve a lid, navigating a floor covered in open containers filled with tools, documents, CDs, and miscellaneous items — confronting the to be or not to be of household organization one bin at a time.

To be organized, or not to be organized — and the answer, apparently, is: more bins.

Horoscopes

To Be or Not to Be: Horoscopes by Shakespeare

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To be or not to be is the question Shakespeare put to the universe in 1600, and the universe has been dodging it ever since.… Read More

Cartoon illustration of a dog ghostwriting your autobiography at a desk with a typewriter, surrounded by papers, coffee, and beef jerky in a cozy home office.

He insisted on final cut and premium jerky.

Culture

How to Tell If Your Dog Is Ghostwriting Your Autobiography

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1. Trash as Origin StoryThe first red flag is your memoir’s sudden fixation on garbage. If your formative years are catalogued not by events but… Read More

Epic Fury satirical illustration of a massive cartoon missile with a snarling shark face blasting through smoke and fire over a burning city skyline, fighter jets streaking overhead and explosions lighting the sky in a dramatic, exaggerated military scene.

Because nothing says restraint like calling it Epic Fury.

Blog

Epic Fury: What’s in a Name?

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Nothing says “measured geopolitical response” like a name–Epic Fury, for example–that sounds as if it was brainstormed between a Monster Energy tasting and a focus… Read More

A satirical cartoon image of a corpulent rich man in court presenting a list of reasons to avoid paying taxes.

My 333-foot superyacht is actually a non-profit maritime rescue vessel.

Top Ten Lists

Ten Excuses Billionaires Use to Avoid Paying Taxes

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Billionaires employ sophisticated financial maneuvers to avoid paying taxes, ensuring that not a single copper farthing goes to the taxman. Being colossally wealthy requires the… Read More

A vintage 1930s rubber hose animation style illustration featuring a sentient mindfulness app personified as a smartphone with a worried expression, pie-cut eyes, and beads of sweat. The character has exaggerated, bouncy limbs and is surrounded by anxious alarm clocks and coffee mugs against a grainy, black and white film texture background.

This sentient app is now so present in the moment that it is having a full-scale panic attack.

Culture

Mindfulness App Achieves Sentience: Immediately Develops Anxiety

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The trouble began on a Tuesday morning in Portland, Oregon, when Serenity Now—the world’s most downloaded mindfulness app, with 47 million active users and a… Read More

A satirical cartoon of Ozzie Nelson captures him in a sanitized 1950s living room. He wears his signature brown cardigan with a tie, displaying an unctuous grin that suggests a man holding his family in a polite hostage situation. The illustration is framed like a television set. Since a drawing cannot sue for libel, this image accurately reflects the control freak who engineered a fictional reality while dictating the unscripted lives of his family.

A man who spent fourteen seasons doing nothing on camera so he could spend twenty-four hours a day controlling everything off camera.

Culture

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Because They Cannot Sue for Libel

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This is the first installment of Speaking Ill of the Dead, a column born of the belief that just because someone has taken the long… Read More

Motion light problem illustration: Man walking past a house at night as a motion sensor light switches on, illuminating him along with a raccoon, blowing leaves, and a drifting plastic bag.

Motion light delivers equal opportunity suspicion.

What Would Nietzsche Do?

What Would Nietzsche Do? The Motion Light Problem

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Herr Nietzsche,My neighbor’s motion light turns on every time I walk past, as though I am suspicious. What should I do? Harvey in San Francisco… Read More