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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: Know Spyin’ — Owed to Spineless Democrats
- POEM: Rule Won
- POEM: Bent Knee Walking
- POEM: The Hows Always Wins
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- POEM: The Palpable Need of De-Crying
- POEM: Off Putting Lip Schtick on a Chauvinist Pig
- POEM: Meat Our Future
- POEM: Pastoral Posture
- POEM: Thinking Outside, The Box
- POEM: Masses of Butterflies
- POEM: OK Corral
- POEM: Relax, Into Propaganda
- POEM: Eye Wannabe Rich
- POEM: A Sorted Tale
- POEM: Rubber Ball
- POEM: Post Lottery Win Syndrome
- POEM: Make Moses Grate Agin
- POEM: Lucky 13 – Owed to Being Played
- POEM: Vaccine-Preventable Deafs
- POEM: From Shakespeare to Churchill
- POEM: The Whys Entrance
- POEM: Recounting Presents
- POEM: That Most Slalom Prey
- POEM: Pre-Mature Ends
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Category Archives: Political Action
FREE POSTER: In Lieu of Building Social Trust Everything Everywhere Will Be Recorded To Be Used Against You Just In Case The Representatives of The Peephole Deem Any Behavior Unfit
I was just feeling under surveillance today. Please feel free to share or print out this free anti-surveillance poster, or other free posters from Top Pun. More designs against the surveillance and security state: … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Free Stuff, Political Action
Tagged Buttons-Pins, free poster, Free Posters, Image, Security, State, Top Pun, Trust
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Obama: I Am The Bomb
As the world careens toward the increasingly surreal, we now officially live in a world where one Nobel Peace Prize winner, Barack Obama, has bombed another Nobel Prize winner, Doctors Without Borders. I nominate Barack Obama as the worst Nobel … Continue reading
FREE POSTER – Black Lives Matter: Devolution of Blue Lives Matter to Corporate Lives Matter, NOT Evolution, NOT Revolution
The Black Lives Matter movement has been successful in spawning reactionary movements. The latest of these is the Blue Lives Matter messaging going national through billboards as a so-called public service. Here is my take on such reactions: That police … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged African American, America, Corporate Personhood, Criminal Justice System, Death, Dehumanizing, Evolution, free poster, Happiness, Human Rights, Image, Justice, Life, National, Nonviolent, Police, Political, Privilege, Reactionary, Resistance, Respect, Revolution, Social Movements, Violence
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POEM: The Next Best President
Victory lies In the wanton To be a sitting president Existentially unable to take a stand As a wizard behind the bully pulpit Meaning only Curtains for US A commandeered In chief smitten Buy the status qouteth Juggling interest In … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Control, Courage, Dancing, Debt, Democracy, Dreams, Elections, Gandhi, government, Injustice, Justice, Law, leadership, Meaning, Military, Money, Moral, nobel peace prize, Occupy Wall Street, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Questions, Resistance, Respect, State, Status, Status Quo, Stupid, Time, Truth, Violence, Wall Street
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POEM: Signs of The Tines
At the White House speak easy Blah blah blah blah blah blah The media drinks it up At a mine-blowingly vapid clip In the mean time On the plantation Grounds to a halt Surrounded by offense In arose guardin’ At … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Argument, Authority, Citizens, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Constitutional Rights, Conundrum, Democracy, Demonstrators, Draft Registration, Evil, Existential, Farce, Free Speech, God, government, Grace, Law, Law Enforcement, Lawyer, Meaning, Media, Military, Modern, Moral, National, National Security, Nationalism, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Police, Political, Politics, Power, Protests, Rage, Religion, Resistance, Security, State, Status, Superficial, Supreme Court, Time
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POEM: Attorney General Edwin Meese III
I know of a man I never met A foe of mine, I can only bet A very close impersonal friend To my unknown needs he’s supposed to tend To rehabilitate me from what to what Maybe he’s a pure-bred … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Community, Competition, Constitution, Draft Registration, Environment, Failure, Freedom, government, History, Impersonal, Justice, Law, Military, Poems, President, Protest Poetry, Punishment
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POEM: Liberal Mined Violent
Some liberal mined violent Call up on pacifists To condemn a brand of violence To wit They object Ultimately subjected To accost Without benefit analysis Coming efface to efface With realty And a sorted loved wons Unwilling to accede where … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Awe, Conservative, Courage, Cowardice, Creativity, Cynical, Death, Disenfranchised, Evil, Fear, Free Will, Gandhi, God, Greed, Heart, Hope, Idealism, Imagination, Injustice, Israel, Justice, Liberal, Love, Military, Mind, Mock, Modern, Moral, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Pacifism, Palestine, Political, Present, Privilege, Quotes, Respect, Responsibility, Science, skin in the game, Spiritual, State, Truth, Veterans, Violence, War, Willingness, Work, Worship
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POEM: Flagging Defeat
He had enough Privilege To ignore The increasingly grave mound Of white lies Worshiping some cruel over lode Surveying all that was once Theirs A teetering tower of babble Atop spinning Helled up only buy its careening whirled Mything the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Change, Constitutional Rights, Corporate Personhood, Creativity, Culture, Democracy, Denial, Direct Democracy, Economic, Elite, Events, Future, Heart, Humanity, Imperialism, Mind, Money, National, Nationalism, Ode, Political, Politics, Power, Privilege, Prophet, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Rich, Slavery, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, War, Worship
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POEM: Meet Me Their
Meet me Wear the sky Kisses the ocean Where the day’s heat Meets the cool of eve Where a child’s cry Meets his mother’s loving ears And a full groan man Brought to his knees Now stands Before his new … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beauty, Future, Hope, Inspiration, Joy, Justice, Labor, Life, Love, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Police, Present, Social Justice, Soul, Toledo, Work
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POEM: Bell of the Bawl: Owed To Gaia
An ocean of salty water rises From the cries unheard Submerging from the wounds of the body politic Stupefied in the face of enduring smarts Delugings egressing from a tsunami of 100% proof And in the offing Will we sea … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Awe, Change, Climate Change, Humanity, Humor, Image, Mother Earth, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Respect, Stewardship, Sustainable
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PUCO Testimony – FirstEnergy Robbery of Ratepayers
Below is my testimony at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) hearing regarding the proposed corporate welfare for FirstEnergy. There was an impressive show of force by the anti-nuclear and pro-environmental folks from the region. There was a show … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Authority, Change, Congress, Control, Death, Economic, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Events, Faith, Farce, Future, government, Ironic, Job, Life, Market, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Pollution, Poor, Power, Public Health, Rich, Risk, Sustainable, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, Truth, Welfare, Work
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POEM: What If Everybody Did That?
Such sophistry Firmly on the bench But What if Everybody did that Judging propriety Smudging property An intolerable act My conscience He decreed Must fall Into line With Kant Where every reason Reduced to rant It’s the leash they can … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Conscience, Crime, Danny Brown, Ethical, Injustice, Justice, Life, Logic, Love, Mock, Moral, Mourning, Muse, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Prison, Propriety, Responsibility, Rhetoric, Risk, Sleep, Toledo
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POEM: Democracy – as seen on TV
Wherever I land In the electoral whirled Politicians ceremoniously execute The will of the people In doctored fashion Yet an other sort of capitol punishment Delegated to the coroner Turning voting off In a Pyrrhic victory So hollowed by those … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Community, Cynical, Democracy, Elections, Enemies, Humanity, Inane, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Punishment, Reactionary, Reality, Time, Truth, Voting
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POEM: Owed to Racism – That Whole In Our Soul
Owed to Racism: That Whole In Our Soul Our life is A thin line between Loving hate And hope filled madness Dark mournings And over joy In this may hem together To suture self And community bound For wince they … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Change, Community, Denial, Experience, Hate, Heart, Hope, Job, Joy, Life, Luck, Mourning, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Racism, skin in the game, Solidarity, Soul, Toledo, Wisdom, Work
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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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Testimony to NRC to Shut Down Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant
Below is my testimony for today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s public hearing regarding the potential re-licensing of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant: My name is Dan Rutt. So, what are my credentials for being here tonight? I live in the kill … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political Action
Tagged America, Children, Congress, Death, Democracy, Environment, Faith, Farce, Future, Hope, Job, Jobs, Life, Mother Earth, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poet, Possibility, Power, Probability, Prophet, Public Health, Reality, Rich, Shareholder, Titanic, Top Pun, Work
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POEM: Fermi Too
From Detroit to Toledo I drive by and by Monroe’s Fermi 2 Nuclear waste tower Falling over Penning only A plume of death In place of this poet A prophet taking Having called for its decommissioning Offers no comfort Only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Commercial, Creation, Death, God, Insanity, Life, Loss, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Police, Power, Prophet, Protesters, Security, Toledo
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POEM: Owed to XL
Owed to XL Something irresistible Drug from Canada That must be some wick-ed shit! What the “eh” For the land of the free to be Sold to the highest Bitter Everything must go! “It’s going to happen anyway” A juggernaut … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Heart, leadership, Life, Moral, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Prison, Responsibility, State, Tar Sands, Work
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POEM: Chapter 58 – Isaiah
Chapter 58 – Isaiah Isaiah was a man A kind of a man More generous than his wealth Untouchable by another’s profits With a frugality beyond any poverty He was a gentle man With a purposefulness typically beyond words Speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Ancient, Bible, Change, Civil Disobedience, Courage, Cruelty, Economic, Evil, Faith, Food, Freedom, God, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Injustice, Irony, Jesus, Joy, Justice, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Modern, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Ode, Oppression, Pacifism, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Present, Prison, Quotes, Rebellion, Rich, Sabbath, Social Justice, Time, Violence, War, Wealth, Work
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