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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: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
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Category Archives: News
POEM: In Jesting Another Triple Crown
America’s quest for monarchy Failed again A triple crown thwarted The quest for total domination Foundering Another cracker jack faux A for-see-able sir prize Californian gold transmuted Into chrome Bronzed A tanned hide Soon forgotten A hoarse race A poorer … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Business, Celebrity, Competition, Consciousness, Cooperation, Domination, Dream, Egalitarian, Elite, Enemies, Exceptionalism, Experience, Hope, Life, Love, Morality, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Rich, Sports, Vulnerability
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POEM: Enlightening Reflection
I looked into his eyes And I could see the devil More lightly peering It was eye A most enlightening reflection Seeing double This short poem hopes to shed some light on the concept of psychological projection. Projection strikes me … Continue reading
Posted in News, Uncategorized
Tagged Accountability, Attitude, Awareness, Balance, Change, Character, Choices, Consciousness, Control, Denial, Dream, Dreams, Environment, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Gift, Heart, Hope, Human Nature, Humanity, Insanity, Joy, Lazy, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Patience, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Projection, Psychology, Reality, Responsibility, Rich, Self-Awareness, Short Poems, State, Status, Status Quo, Victim Blaming, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: Eulogizing Fort Hood
Eulogizing Fort Hood It is not ours to ask Why those so schooled In violence Should act violently On a vocation so seriously Taking Won too many weepings Lead so quickly Penetrating human hearts Our own flesh Not at home … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Guns, Heart, Nonviolence, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Rage, Veterans, Violence, Vocation
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POEM: Owed to Fort Hood Shooting(s)
Owed to Fort Hood Shooting(s) Welcome to the hood A fort of freedom Billed upon violence Up in arms With billions in cache Yet what remains Unexplained Bodies of evidence About faces Ambushed from deep within Sow unlike The enemy … Continue reading
POEM: Razz Putin: Owed to Ukraine
As things Go south And wiled west Stupefying as some razz Putin What due we have Hear A good ol’ boy Re-siding in backcountry Rushin’ cross Too bear An unsettling black see A lynch pin for his sue veneer pogram … Continue reading
POEM: We Won’t Be Food Again
I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, America, Ancient, Authority, Awe, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Change, Children, Community, Compassion, Consumerism, Conundrum, Counter-Cultural, Creation, Culture, Debt, Dehumanizing, Discrimination, Disease, Disenfranchised, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Equality, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Genius, God, government, Harmony, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Income, Inequality, Intimacy, Jesus, Job, Jobs, Journey, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Living Wage, Love, Meaning, Money, Oppression, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, President, Privilege, Productivity, Prophet, Proverb, Reality, Religious, Respect, Rhetoric, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Scarcity, Science, Simplicity, Slavery, Society, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, Values, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Western Civilization, Willingness, Wisdom, Women, Work, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl Sunday Guess what I herd It’s Super Bowl™ Sabbath Quite coincidentally on Sunday And I’m not sure who’s playing who Perhaps the Cowboys and Indians Or the Lions and the Christians The eternal argument weather Its just A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Christian, Commercial, Competition, Culture, Domination, Exceptionalism, Faith, Life, Love, Money, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Sabbath, Sports, Time, War, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: State of the Union – Barack Obama
The State of the Union In come in equality Barack Hussein Obama Raising a question Of will he deliver His second state Of the union Different than the first Shot from Chicagoland Now addressing From 1600 sumpin’ Pennsylvania Avenue A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Community, Economic, Education, Equality, Experience, Family, Fear, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idealism, Identity, Income, Inequality, Intellect, Irony, Joy, Law, Lawyer, Lazy, Life, Minority, Money, Navy, Obama, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Present, President, Questioning, Racism, Reality, Rhetoric, Science, skin in the game, Society, Soul, State, Status, Time, Truth, Vulnerability, War
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Martin Luther King Day history and reflection
Martin Luther King Day is coming up on January 20, 2014. MLK Day is celebrated in the U.S. on the third Monday of every January. The first official celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, as a federal holiday in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Celebrations, Change, Christmas, Civil Rights, Community, Congress, Debt, Democrat, Future, government, History, Holy, Inane, Institutions, Jesus, Justice, Law, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, mlk celebration, mlk day, Monetize, National, Power, Powers that be, President, Productivity, Racism, Republican, Resistance, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Veterans, Voting, Work
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POEM: Twittering Away – Owed to IPO’d
This poem is in tribute to today’s initial public offering of Twitter: Twittering Away – Owed to IPO’d Is there a longing beyond The public stocks IPO’d Buy and buy The Alpha and Beta of existence Reduced to 140 characters … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Dreams, Fear, Humanity, Inane, Irony, Life, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Reality, Society, Technology, Virtual Reality
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POEM: BUCKET BRIGADE – Owed to Karen Krause
BUCKET BRIGADE Owed to Karen Krause While some pine That faith The size of a mustard seed Can move mountains Like magic Perhaps with a wrinkle of their knows Wiser women know How mountains move Bucket by bucket By outstretched … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems
Tagged Awe, Courage, Death, Experience, Faith, Food, Gift, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Humility, Injustice, Jesus, Jobs, Jobs with Justice, Justice, Life, Meaning, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Powers that be, Public Health, Social Justice, Time, Toledo, Truth, Women, Work
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POEM: Good News, Bad News
I have good news and bad news The bad news: God called and he said he wants his religion back The good news: He didn’t call collect The gap between the actual practice of religion and the sacred principles held … Continue reading
POEM: Monkeys with Typewriters
If you put a hundred monkeys with typewriters in a room Would there be any way to tell That it wasn’t the Fox News copy room? This short poem is a parody of both the infinite monkey theorem and Fox … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Blessing, Christian, Conservative, Evolution, Fox News, Meaning, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Probability, Randomness, Shakespeare, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Universe, Work
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POEM: Navy Yard Killings
Navy Yard Killings In these crazy times Of senseless killings Nations seek a return To sensible killings There are many levels of crazy. There are perhaps even more levels of crazy when it comes to killing. I am not surprised … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Ancient, Business, Compassion, Crazy, Dream, Empathy, Family, God, Grace, Heart, History, Hope, Irony, Love, Military, Navy, Normal, Obama, Pacifism, Poems, Poet, Power, President, Projection, Reality, Short Poems, Slavery, Sleep, Status, Violence, War, Wisdom
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Terminal Terminology: Redefining CANCER
A recent news story about redefining cancer raises the issue of how powerful something becomes depending on what we call it. In this case, I call it “terminal terminology.” Cancer diagnosis and treatment is literally a growth industry. About half … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Experience, Fear, Health Care, Hope, Life, Pyschology, Radical, Risk, Technology
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POEM: As We Press Release
As We Press Release The defense department denies killing civilians The state department denies human rights abuses by trade partners The department of energy denies that nuclear power is anything but safe The criminal justice system denies institutional racism The … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Big Brother, Capitalism, Commercial, Conspiracy, Consumerism, Crassness, Criminal Justice System, Defense, Evolution, Expediency, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, GOP, Greed, Hell, Human Rights, Imperialism, Inane, Journalists, Justice, Labor, Life, Militarism, Military, Mind, Nuclear Power, Oppression, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Propaganda, Racism, Social Movements, Sociopathy, State, War
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BP Tar Sands Refinery Expansion – PEOPLE’S HEARING Testimony
Below is my testimony at the PEOPLE’S HEARING to respond to the Ohio EPA’s sham public hearing on BP-Husky’ Draft Air Pollution Permit as part of their Oregon Ohio refinery re-tooling to process oil tar sands, the dirtiest oil on the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Political Action
Tagged Addiction, America, Ancient, Beauty, Business, Change, Children, Citizens, Community, Congress, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Economic, Environment, Environmental, government, Greed, History, Humanity, Insanity, Jobs, Justice, Life, Money, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Occupy Toledo, Play, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Power, Progress, Public Health, Scarcity, State, Stewardship, Sustainable, Tar Sands, Time, Toledo, Trust, Wealth, Women, Work
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Justice For Danny Brown $149.02
Today, I have to go down to the Toledo Municipal Court and pay my fine and court costs of $149 for “illegal posting” of Justice for Danny Brown stickers and Julia Bates WANTED posters all over downtown, surrounding the Lucas … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Political Action
Tagged Crime, Danny Brown, Debt, Free Speech, Freedom, Future, Illegal, Justice, Law, Life, Money, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poor, Protests, Society, State, Toledo
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Just Eating For Life: New Web Site
I have been interested in nutrition pretty much my whole adult life. This started out from a concern for world hunger and stewardship of our natural resources, as well has an interest in nutrition and health. I became a vegetarian … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News
Tagged Business, Change, Community, Gift, Hope, Job, Life, Mind, Nutrition, Public Health, Science, Stewardship, Time, Top Pun, Work, World Hunger
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