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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: Over Powering Thongs of People – Owed to Public “Safety Nets”
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- POEM: Congressional Ethics is Crimes Bitch
- Rogue AI – Owed to Broligarchs Playing in Sandboxes
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Category Archives: Peace
POEM: Oh Israel, Unequivocally State Fallowed Script Her
I have always admired the Torah and Old Testament perpetual reminders of “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,” and the precept, “You shall not oppress … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Failure, Food, God, Hell, History, Israel, Modern, Muslims, Palestine, Palestinian, People of The Book, Religion, Religious, Sacred, State, Truth, Xenophobia, Zionist
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POEM: In Dig Nation — Ode to That Lyin’ of Zionism
The UN Secretary General has called on Israel to have a humanitarian ceasefire. Israel calls for his resignation. Mean wile, The United States is resigned to complicity with war crimes in the bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure on top … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Food, Israel, Ode, Palestine, State, War, War Crimes
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POEM: Superseeding An Other
Deathly war is an unending incantation of tragedies. While one tragedy may be viewed as pivotal, as likely as knot another tragedy will supersede the earlier tragedy in quick succession. Perhaps the only surety is that two posing sides will … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Rage, War
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POEM: In Hospitable Missive
This poem was inspired by Israel’s official denial of any responsibility in the missile attack on a Palestinian hospital which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of patients, health care workers, and refugees desperately seeking what was hoped to be … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Denial, Health Care, Israel, Military, Mourning, Palestinian, Reality, Refugees, Responsibility, Truth, War
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POEM: Blessed Be Our Creator (Not There’s)
In times of war or national revenge, demonization of one’s foes is standard operating procedure, necessary for justifying mass killing and destruction of civilian infrastructure, let alone civilians. This hole affair is all the more disgusting when it is dressed … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conscience, Darwin, Demonization, Evil, Moral, Morality, National, Necessary Evil, Religious, War
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POEM: Tension All Humans
If we want to be competent human beings on this planet, a founding document in our education and a basis for our collective life is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Education, History, Human Rights, Life, Time
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POEM: End the Israeli Occupation — Owed to the Palestinian People
The Israeli occupation must end. The latest in generations-long human rights violations and obstinate abrogation of international law must end. Cutting of water, food, electricity and fuel to an entire population, mostly civilians, of course, is a moral horror. No … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Food, Human Rights, Israel, Law, Military, Moral, Palestinian, Power, President, Prison, Questions, Security, State
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POEM: A Bout Time
A common complaint is that there is never enough time. Overbooking ourselves seems endemic. I have made an intentional effort over my life to create some space and time, allowing me to lead a less hurried and less forced life. … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged John Lennon, Life, Success, Time
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POEM: Divine Die-alogue
This poem plays with notion of God sitting next to me my whole life, and that presence involves no literal speaking. Then, upon my death God turns to me… Divine Die-alogue I am Dumb to talk about it Such profound … Continue reading
POEM: The N Times? An Ode Too AI
Here is a poem a bout AI, artificial intelligence. This is a poem with ATTITUDE! Today’s news included this: Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission. With this poem, I throw down the gauntlet to … Continue reading
POEM: Family Photo Finish
When NATO gathered today to pronounce the initiation rituals and well-titrated accosts for Ukraine to join “the family,” I couldn’t help but feel that there was a little too much cheer leading the ordinariness of military buildups. To that a … Continue reading
POEM: Toying With An Explosive Future — Owed to Cluster Bombs
The U.S. is pondering it’s grave commitment to banning the use of cluster bombs — between wars that is. Weather or knot to endow Ukraine with such weapons of war, that is, the madder of contention. In case you didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, cluster bombs, Future, Kids, War
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POEM: Israel Boldly Squashes Refugee Camp — Owed to as Easy as Pi
This poem goes out to all of the Palestinians bulldozed over and shot in Jenin, particularly the “permanent” refugee camp, by Israeli farces. May this poem become outmoded. Unfortunately, this poem has been written over and over through generations. Israel … Continue reading
POEM: Law Abiding Citizens — Until Not
This poem goes out to all of those affected by mass shootings this “Independence” Day weekend: Law Abiding Citizens — Until Not The truth is Out Law Abiding citizens Until not Bearing arms And souls Entrails of blood And tears … Continue reading
POEM: Iraq and a Hard Place
This poem tells a story — a story of patriotic fervor in slaughtering America’s foes. This story was told to me by a retired Grumman engineer, a literal rocket scientist and career military-industrialist. His story was prefaced by a glorious … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Awe, Bullshit, Defense, Evil, Farce, Hell, Humanity, Irony, Job, Media, Mercy, Military, Money, Necessary Evil, Patriotism, Technology, War
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POEM: What Gives? Owed to Mutually Assured Destruction
This poem was inspired by a recent conversation with an apologist for the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction, infamously known as MAD. I am not a fan of so-called “necessary evil”; if evil is necessary, then it is … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Doctrine, Ethics, Evil, Guns, Moral, mutually assured destruction, Necessary Evil, State, War
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POEM: Putin on the Ritz
Putin on the Ritz Putin showed up The end At the gate of heaven Only to discover that God is the kindest woman You could ever imagine Who also turns out To be a huge fan Of Pussy Riot And … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Funny Poems, Peace, Poems
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FREE POSTER: God is Love (with asterisk)
God is love. Period. In case you were wondering what the fine print says: it’s the Sermon on the Mount (below). I wanted the primary meaning of this poster to address and challenge the notion that God’s love has a … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authority, Blessed, Children, Enemies, Evil, Faith, Food, Foolish, free poster, Gift, God, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Immorality, Jerusalem, Jesus, Labor, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Mercy, Money, Moral, Morality, Murder, Peacemakers, Poor, Prison, Prophet, Sacred, Temptation, Time
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POEM: A Dubiously Fresh Pickle
They effaced a moral dilemma Support human rights Or economic favor A dubiously fresh pickle In a blue moon That hoary question Of prophets verses Profits And what they seed Their lukewarm revelation Hallowing out What we may no Knot … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Economic, Evil, Human Rights, Humanity, Life, Moral, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Prophet, Responsibility, Surreal, Terrorism, War
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