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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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Tag Archives: Business
POEM: Actual Pie vs. Pi
Actual pie is way more than 3.14159 times better than mathematical pi. This simple one line poem makes fun of Western civilization’s fixation on the quantitative versus qualitative. It is big business to reduce everything to a number, preferably dollars … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Beauty, Business, Experience, Nature, One-line Poems, Pi, Short Poems, Time, Western Civilization
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POLITICAL CARTOON: CEO Jesus – The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
CEO Jesus Speaks: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth! Welcome to CEO Jesus! This is the second installment a new Top Pun series of comics that will run on Sundays, featuring CEO Jesus, Free Market Jesus, Country Club Jesus, General … Continue reading
Posted in Political Cartoons
Tagged Acceptance, Accountability, Anti-Corporate, Bible, Business, Cartoon, Church, Comics, Commercial, Culture, Free market, Future, Humility, Intimacy, Jesus, Judiasm, Market, Parodies, Political, Prophet, Religion, Religious, Resistance, Satire, Top Pun, Vulnerability
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POEM: Getting Your Ducks in a Row
I once put all my ducks in a row Only then realizing What am I doing with all these ducks?! Getting one’s ducks in a row is an idiom or metaphor that most people are familiar with, meaning that we … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Business, Busyness, Chaos, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Freedom, Future, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Idioms, John Lennon, Laziness, Lazy, Learning, Life, Meaning, Mind, Objectivity, Perspective, Physics, Poet, Poetry, Productivity, Quotes, Reality, Rumi, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Simplicity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Subjectivity, Time, Universe, Work, Yogi Berra
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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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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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Hate Taxes? Avoid These 102 Tax-funded Enterprises
Tax time is around the corner, and it seems increasingly popular these days to hate taxes. Of course, hating taxes is a simply a more palpable manifestation of hating government. Further, I would submit that the bulk of government hating … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Army, Authority, Business, Children, Cooperation, Crassness, Culture, Firearms, Food, Free market, Freedom, government, Hate, Health Care, Hell, Housing, Humanity, Illegal, Job, Kids, Life, Lifestyle, Market, Medicaid, Medicare, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, National, Philosophy, Police, Political, Politics, Postal Service, Public Goods, Republican, Right-Wing, Security, Simple Solutions, Social Security, Society, State, taxes, Time, Top Pun, Tragedy of the Commons, Veterans, Voting, Work, Workplace, Worship
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“PUNS NOT GUNS” Manifesto by Top Pun
“PUNS NOT GUNS” Manifesto “Some claim that puns are the lowest form of comedy. Dan, rather, says, “Guns are the lowest form of community.” Choose your weepin’! I prefer to hit ’em in the groan. Though puns and untrained minds … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace
Tagged Anti-Gun, Business, Church, Community, Consciousness, Funny, Guns, Haiti, Inspiration, Justice, Life, Manifesto, Mennonite, Mennonites, Mom, Nonviolence, Normal, Paradoxes, Play, Poverty, Present, Puns, Rhyme, Social Justice, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Violence, Vocation, World Hunger
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Real Test of Power to Prevent War
PEACE QUOTE: Real Test of Power to Prevent War–PEACE SIGN BUTTON PEACE QUOTE: Real Test of Power to Prevent War–PEACE SIGN BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, … Continue reading →