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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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Category Archives: News
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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American Spring Coming: Occupy G8 and NATO in Chicago
With the G8 and NATO summits coming to Chicago in the middle of May, the occupy movement is poised to jump start the American Spring. The Occupy Wall Street movement has already called for a general strike on May Day, … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authority, Economic, Elite, Fear, G8, government, Hope, Journalists, May Day, Media, Military, Moral, NATO, Obama, Occupy Toledo, Occupy Wall Street, Patriot, Political, Poverty, Power, Present, President, Propaganda, Protesters, Protests, Resentment, Resistance, Rules, State, Time, Toledo, Trust, Wall Street, War, Work
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Obama Shifts Military Defense Cuts to Domestic Programs
George Zornick blogs in The Nation about Obama’s Plan to Save the Military From Cuts—at the Expense of Domestic Programs. Here is an excerpt: “As budget wonks comb over President Obama’s outline for fiscal year 2013, a startling White House … Continue reading
Violence Protects the State
Stephanie N. Van Hook, Executive Director of Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, California, has written a commentary in Znet on How Violence Protects the State. Here is an excerpt: “Violence in opposition to the State relieves the State and … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Change, Culture, government, Harmony, History, Humanity, Injustice, Life, Logic, Love, Modern, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Power, Propaganda, Protesters, Rage, Respect, Risk, State, Unity, Violence
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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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How Much is Enough? Enough is Enough
David Sirota writes in In These Times about Embracing Enough. How much is enough? I consider this one of the most important questions for humans to answer both for themselves and to work out a reasonable relationship with the other … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Balance, Business, Change, Conservative, Doctrine, Economic, Ethics, Free market, Freedom, Hypocritical, Immorality, Individualism, Market, Moral, Morality, Nature, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Questions, Responsibility, Time, Work, Worship
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Anarchism: Cooperation, Decentralization, Social Cohesion
David Morris writes in On the Commons, regarding the anniversary of the death of the Russian Peter Kropotkin, an article: Anarchism Is Not What You Think It Is — And There’s a Whole Lot We Can Learn from It: The … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Authoritarian, Chaos, Character, Competition, Cooperation, Darwin, Death, Decentralization, Evolution, Humanity, Inequality, Injustice, Intellect, Kropotkin, leadership, Lenin, Life, Mind, Moral, Nature, Nihilism, Politics, Poverty, Privilege, Radical, Revolution, Revolutionary, Russia, Science, Society, Time, Tyranny, Wealth, Work
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Valentine’s Day: Show The World Your Love of Justice
Hannah Levintova of Mother Jones magazine has a wake-up call for Valentine’s Day celebrants: Think You’re a Virtuous Valentine? Think Again. She writes: Cut flowers: That bouquet you may be planning to gift today was most likely not grown in … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Children, Colombia, Conspiracy, Consumption, Defense, Economy, Ecuador, Environmental, Facts, Gift, Ironic, Job, Justice, Labor, Living Simply, Love, Mother Jones, Poor, Sex, Sexual Harrassment, Stewardship, Valentine, Women, Workplace
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Ultra-Rich Mitt Romney in 1% of the 1%
According to the Wall Street Journal, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney had an income of $21.7 million last year. This puts Mr. Romney in the category of the ultra rich, the super rich, the mega rich, the 1% of the … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Class Warfare, Freedom, Income, Mitt Romney, Money, Political, Poor, Republican, Rich, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal
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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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Dennis Kucinich versus Marcy Kaptur Congressional Race
War is a Crime blogger David Swanson recommends that the election that we should be watching is the congressional district nine race pitting Democratic incumbents Dennis Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur. For those of us in this congressional district that stretches … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Political Action
Tagged Congress, Courage, Crime, Democrat, Dennis Kucinich, Jobs, Liberal, Loss, Marcy Kaptur, Nuclear Power, Power, Radical, Republican, Toledo, War
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Attack on Press Freedoms in Occupy Movement
Nation Magazine blogger Peter Rothberg has reported on attacks on press freedoms in the Occupy movement. Over 50 journalists have been arrested since the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement last September. You can sign a petition to support journalists … Continue reading
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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