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Top Pun's mission is to maximize prophets. Top Pun creates serious, funny, and seriously funny peace and justice designs which are available on your choice of products such as buttons, T-shirts, and bumper stickers. Top Pun blogs to highlight additional facets of his word artistry such as pun-filled poetry and funny political satire, free posters, as well as political actions of local and global importance -- and don't forget the noncommercial, public health radio show available online, Just for the Health of It . Top Pun's serious playfulness ever reminds us that justice is no yoke, and the pun is mightier than the sword!
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- POEM: Job One
- POEM: Dawning of So-called Civilization
- POEM: The Dance of Life
- POEM: Barren His Soul
- POEM: Hope Ungraduated
- POEM: The Lessen of Mirror Nihilism
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- POEM: What is De-served?
- POEM: Baby-ize
- POEM: A Walker, Please
- POEM: People of Consequence
- POEM: Rat Race Religion
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- POEM: Love is Never Having to Say “Thank You”
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Category Archives: Health
Who’s the One percent and 99 Percent?
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been successful in framing much of the political debate in this country around the concept of who is the 1%, and who are the 99%. Obviously, for those in the United States, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Children, Citizens, Class Warfare, Conflict, Economic, Economy, Evolution, Hope, Income, Inequality, Justice, Money, Occupy Wall Street, Political, Politics, Poor, Poverty, Public Health, Reality, Revolution, Rich, Success, Suffering, Wall Street, War, Wealth, Women
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Blood Donor Deferrals Border on Insanity
I just returned from donating blood at the American Red Cross. I have been a regular blood donor for a long time. I usually donate blood two or three times a year. Unfortunately, I have been deferred as a blood … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Health, News
Tagged Absolute Security, Advertising, American Red Cross, Balance, Blood Donors, Change, Choices, Colombia, Control, Crazy, Culture, Disease, Environment, Epidemiology, Events, Experience, Fear, Haiti, Hate, Health Care, Heterosexual, Hope, Insanity, Life, Loss, Military, Perspective, Political, Prevention, Public Health, Questions, Relationships, Risk, Security, Sex, Technology, Time, Vanity, Willingness, Women, Zero Risk
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Religious Liberty, Conscience Exemptions for Everything
With the Obama administration’s recent rules requiring organizations owned by religious groups to provide contraceptive coverage as part of their employees’ health insurance, conservative groups and the Roman Catholic Church have gotten all their panties in a bunch, which is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Balance, Bible, Birth Control, Catholic, Church, Community, Congress, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Conservative, Control, Draft Registration, Economic, Existential, Freedom, God, government, Grace, Health Insurance, Illegal, Immigration, Law, Law Enforcement, leadership, Logic, Love, Mennonites, Military, Obama, Pacifism, Parodies, Philosophical, Political, Politics, Power, Quakers, Questions, Reality, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Resistance, Respect, Rules, State, Status, Supreme Court, taxes, Toledo, Truth, Violence, War, Work
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POEM: Getting Your Ducks in a Row
I once put all my ducks in a row Only then realizing What am I doing with all these ducks?! Getting one’s ducks in a row is an idiom or metaphor that most people are familiar with, meaning that we … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Business, Busyness, Chaos, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Freedom, Future, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idioms, John Lennon, Laziness, Lazy, Learning, Life, Meaning, Mind, Objectivity, Perspective, Physics, Poet, Poetry, Productivity, Quotes, Reality, Rumi, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Simplicity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Subjectivity, Time, Universe, Work, Yogi Berra
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Post Office Not Broke
Nation magazine blogger John Nichols (a former Toledoan for my Toledo friends) reports in The Post Office Is Not Broke about all of the hype about the post office and how it is supposedly going bankrupt, an antiquated institution, etc. … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Political Action
Tagged America, Business, Congress, government, Health Care, Postal Service, Retirees, State, Toledo
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NEWS: Exploding Pig Poop
Mother Jones magazine blogger Tom Philpott has reported on Exploding Pig Poop. Well, agribusiness is moving us one step closer to that mythic day when pigs fly! What is to be concerned about? How about exploding barns, thousands of … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News
Tagged Agribusiness, Food, Mother Jones, Pigs Fly, Public Health, Vegetarianism
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Hate Taxes? Avoid These 102 Tax-funded Enterprises
Tax time is around the corner, and it seems increasingly popular these days to hate taxes. Of course, hating taxes is a simply a more palpable manifestation of hating government. Further, I would submit that the bulk of government hating … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Army, Authority, Business, Children, Cooperation, Crassness, Culture, Firearms, Food, Free market, Freedom, government, Hate, Health Care, Hell, Housing, Humanity, Illegal, Job, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Market, Medicaid, Medicare, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, National, Philosophy, Police, Political, Politics, Postal Service, Public Goods, Republican, Right-Wing, Security, Simple Solutions, Social Security, Society, State, taxes, Time, Top Pun, Tragedy of the Commons, Veterans, Voting, Work, Workplace, Worship
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Protest Against NATO, G8 in Chicago, May 19, 2012
Protest the NATO/G8 Summit taking place in Chicago. The Legal, permitted, family-friendly march and rally will happen at Noon, Saturday, May 19th, 2012, at Daley Plaza, followed by a march to McCormick Place. The protest is sponsored and organized by … Continue reading
Toledo Protests Balancing State Budget on Backs of Working People and Families
This afternoon, about three dozen people from Northwest Ohio gathered in the chambers of the Lucas County commissioners at Government Center in downtown Toledo to protest Gov. Kasich’s State of the State address which balances the state’s budget on the … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Political Action
Tagged budgets, Common Good, Creation, Events, Faith, God, government, Greed, Health Care, Job, Jobs, Jobs with Justice, Justice, Labor, labor unions, leadership, Occupy Toledo, Poverty, Privatizing, Protests, State, taxes, Toledo
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Birth Control as a Human Right – Toledo Protest
On Friday, February 6, about a dozen protesters gathered outside St. Anne’s Hospital on Secor Road in Toledo, Ohio. This protest was organized by the Toledo Chapter of the National Organization for Women (see Toledo NOW facebook page), it also … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Birth Control, Catholic, Christian, Christianity, Church, Conflict, Conscience, Control, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Doctrine, Events, facebook, Freedom, God, Health Insurance, Hospitality, Human Rights, Idolatry, Ironic, Life, Mystical, National, Nationalism, Obama, Occupy Toledo, Political, President, Protesters, Protests, Radical, Reality, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Respect, Risk, Sacred, Sacrifice, Security, skin in the game, Society, Soul, State, Stewardship, Time, Toledo, Values, Willingness, Wisdom, Women, Work
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Celebrate National Public Health Week 2012
Celebrate National Public Health Week 2012 Top Pun, a public health professional in a former incarnation, invites you to celebrate National Public Health Week 2012, which for 2012 occurs April 2-8. The annual health observance, seeks to mobilize communities across … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Peace
Tagged America, Celebrations, Community, Control, Education, Events, Incarnation, Job, Justice, National, Nutrition, Philosophical, Prevention, Public Health, Social Justice, Time, Top Pun, Work
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It’s the Greed, Stupid
It’s the Greed, Stupid POLITICAL BUTTON It’s the Greed, Stupid POLITICAL BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker sheets can … Continue reading →