Category Archives: Political and Philosophical Musings

Political Philosophy Writings

POEM: Sure Fire Means and Ends

Posted on August 10, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a reflection on the inextricable link between means and ends, and the devastatingly common mistake of de-linking means ands ends producing an endless array of “means” and “ends”. The short game often shorts us; though I recognize … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Devil Made Me – Due It

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Top Pun

Here is a poem about one of my longstanding pet peeves, the moral laziness of “necessary” evil. Evil happens. Evil is unavoidable. Still, if evil is an ethical choice made by moral agents, it cannot be necessary. None the less, … Continue reading →

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POEM: Grizzled Prospector

Posted on July 25, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about the difficult prospecting in life for goaled. There are many treasures to be discovered and re-discovered, even as life occasionally collapses upon us. Of course, each time we get through to the other side, however grizzled, … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Seventh Generation Fuel

Posted on July 24, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is a tip of the hat to indigenous peoples’ supremely wise practice of considering every decision in the light of how it will affect people seven generations down the road. I wrote this during the dark of the … Continue reading →

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POEM: Secret Quest

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem plays with the intrinsically obscure interior nature of subjective experience. While one may want to speak of potentially mystical or God experiences, there is an irreducible aspect that cannot be reliably verified, at least in the typical scientific … Continue reading →

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POEM: The Whole In My Soul

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Top Pun

This poem is about living in the grievously beautiful realty that a truly open heart is a broken heart. I wrote this poem years ago, and now I have come to understand that my heart is broke in, as in … Continue reading →

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POEM: The N Times? An Ode Too AI

Posted on July 17, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Mine, Mine, Mine

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Top Pun

Dehumanizing extractive industries are destroying our environment, second only to climate change. Mining is a huge part of extractive industries’ destruction. And, ironically, the technologies needed for a green economy require immense quantities of minerals that drive the “green, green, … Continue reading →

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POEM: Passing On Death

Posted on July 13, 2023 by Top Pun

The massacre of 11 congregants at Tree of Life synagogue was the worst anti-Semitic hate crime in modern America. Today, a jury decided that the convicted Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter is eligible for the death penalty.  The trial will now … Continue reading →

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POEM: Family Photo Finish

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: A Roomy Poem

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Top Pun

A Roomy Poem I found myself In a room larger than I’d ever been Witnessing untold luxuries Treasures seen by so few Jealously wandering and wondering Who so ever in habits Could ever holy know I really due Need To … Continue reading →

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POEM: Awkward Period

Posted on July 9, 2023 by Top Pun

Awkward Period I am just Sow trying To navigate Well And empty well In this awkward period Between birth and death Life presents an unending series of challenges for which we can never be fully prepared. This truth embeds a … Continue reading →

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POEM: Skip to the Loo, My Darling

Posted on July 8, 2023 by Top Pun

Our prisons are filled with people with poorly treated substance use disorders, mental health issues, and the homeless. Prisons and jails are terrible places to deal with these issues. Incarceration is expensive, ineffective, and dehumanizing for those suffering these conditions. … Continue reading →

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POEM: Toying With An Explosive Future — Owed to Cluster Bombs

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: Seniority

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Top Pun

A short poem on aging well… Seniority I used to be Young and unafraid Now I am Just Old and unafraid I suspect that one of the most pivotal dynamics of aging is about fear and conformity. It seems that … Continue reading →

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POEM: Iraq and a Hard Place

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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POEM: The World and Change

Posted on July 3, 2023 by Top Pun

This is a poem of hope and resistance. I find it easy to ponder all of the scary challenges the world offers. I sometimes need to remind myself that a deep understanding of how the world doesn’t work also comes … Continue reading →

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POEM: What Gives? Owed to Mutually Assured Destruction

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Top Pun

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 →

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FREE POSTER: There Are QUEENS and There Are QUEENS – I Prefer The FORMER

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Top Pun

This free poster is my marking of the death of Queen Elizabeth. This FREE POSTER: There Are QUEENS and There Are QUEENS – I Prefer The FORMER is a LGBTQ pride poster as well as an anti-monarchy poster. In case … Continue reading →

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POEM: A Litany For The Birds

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Top Pun

A Litany For The Birds A first bird In early mourning Calls out the names Of each creature No longer in this realm this day A second bird In a coo of sorts Sings out the names Of each soul … Continue reading →

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