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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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POEM: Toddling Western Civilization

Have you ever seen a toddler who can barely walk Stumbling forward, running to not fall Deliriously proud of oneself This may be Western civilization This short poem is a metaphor for Western civilization.  For any of us who have … Continue reading

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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

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