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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: Hour Weepin’ of Choice
- POEM: Royally Backwards: Owed to Chuck the King
- POEM: Death Unexplained [Ode to Harry Gavin]
- FREE POSTER: There Are QUEENS and There Are QUEENS – I Prefer The FORMER
- POEM: A Litany For The Birds
- POEM: Authentic Hat Whisperer
- POEM: Putin on the Ritz
- FREE POSTER: Scientists have narrowed down the origin of the COVFEFE-19 virus to either a raccoon virus or Oompa-Loompa virus
- Trump Begs Forgiveness For Bungling COVID-19 Response
- POEM: What Cannot Be Forest Upon Mother Nature
- POEM: Neighboring Accountability
- POEM: Nobody Really No’s
- LOVE POEM: The Her and Now
- LOVE POEM: Stolen Goods
- POEM: Dyslexic Write Wringer
- POEM: That Clarity Amidst Blood
- POEM: God’s Tell
- FREE POSTER: T-rump, BIG MOUTH, tiny hands, Breaks Shit
- UNIMPEACHABLE POEM: When Conspiracy Makes a Perfect Call
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INAUGURAL Public Health Radio Show on WAKT, 106.1 FM Toledo — Just For The Health of It: Medicare For All and Toledo Democracy Day
After years in the waiting and making, I am proud to announce the inaugural show of my public health radio show, Just for the Health of It, on WAKT, 106.1 FM Toledo (ToledoRadio.org). Just for the Health of It brings you new … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Addiction, America, Blessed, Business, Capitalism, Cautionary Tale, Citizens, Commercial, Community, Competition, Control, Corporate Personhood, Crises, Death, Democracy, Disease, Disillusionment, Economy, Efficiency, Elections, Fear, Free Speech, government, Greed, Health Care, Health Insurance, Heart, History, Hope, Human Rights, Humility, Inequality, Injustice, Job, Just for the Health of It, Justice, Kids, Law, Life, Lifestyle, Love, Market, Meaning, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare for All, Mental Health, Mercy, Military, Modern, Money, Moral, Move to Amend, National, Nature, Normal, Perspective, Political, Poor, Present, President, Prevention, ProMedica, Public Health, Reality, Risk, Science, Security, Sleep, Social Justice, Social Security, Socialism, State, Stewardship, taxes, Terrorism, Time, Toledo, Voters, WAKT, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Promedica My Ass — Owed To Branding
Logos used Too mean Know ledge Like that age owed ad vice Would you jump off a bridge If every won ails did As in sayin’ Bye your good will As money oozes from the non-prophet, health care (sic) system … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Family, Gandhi, Genius, Health Care, Justice, Life, Living Wage, Love, Money, Mourning, Poet, Poetry, ProMedica, Prophet, Proprietary, Propriety, Resistance, Rich, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Tao, Time, Toledo
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Democracy Day : 5 Minutes of Democracy
Today is Democracy Day, mandated by a people’s resolution to Toledo City Council, spearheaded by Toledo Move To Amend, declaring that corporations are not people and money is not free speech. Today’s forum in Toledo City Council chambers, albeit with … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged budgets, Citizens, Commercial, Democracy, Family, Free Speech, Gift, government, Heart, Love, Mind, Money, Move to Amend, Oligarchy, Play, Plutocracy, Political, Politics, Power, ProMedica, Sacred, Silence, Sleep, Time, Toledo, Trust
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER – SUPPORT THE ARTS – Artists Make Lousy Slaves
This free poster takes a relatively apolitical statement, “Support The Arts,” and combines it with a socially and politically provocative assertion that artists make lousy slaves. Slavery is perhaps the penultimate expression of dehumanization, literally selling humanity for simple utility … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Children, Commercial, Control, Crude, Culture, Economy, Experience, free poster, Free Posters, Humanity, Inspiration, Justice, Monetize, Political, Slavery, Social Justice, Truth, Women
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Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism
If you want to make sense of the failure of neoliberalism, as typified by Hillary Clinton, and its vomiting up of proto-fascist leaders like Donald Trump, then author and journalist Chris Hedges nails it again, in this piece, Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Advertising, Authoritarian, Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, Children, Christian, Citizens, Commercial, Common Good, Compassion, Control, Conundrum, Cruelty, Culture, Cynical, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Economic, Elite, Enemies, Failure, Fascism, Heaven, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Hypermasculinity, Hypocritical, Identity, Ideology, Integrity, Justice, Liberal, Misogyny, Mitt Romney, Moral, Narcissism, National, Nazi, Neoliberalism, Police, Political, Politics, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Rage, Reality, Religious, Republican, Rhetoric, Security, State, Superficial, Trust, Truth, Violence, War, Women
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REAL POLITICS, REAL CANDIDATE: Jill Stein 2016 Platform
IF you want a progressive presidential candidate that you can get excited about voting FOR, then Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate is worth serious consideration. Jill Stein has selected her Green Party running mate, Vice President choice, Ajamu Baraka. … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authority, Ballot, Business, Capitalism, Change, China, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Climate Change, Commercial, Community, Congress, Constitutional Rights, Control, Corporate Personhood, Courage, Creation, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Culture, Death, Death Penalty, Debt, Defense, Democracy, Democrat, Disarmament, Discrimination, Disease, Diversity, Doctrine, drone, Economic, Economy, Education, Elections, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Equality, Family, Fear, Food, Free Speech, Free Trade, Freedom, Future, Gender, government, Green Party, Health Care, Health Insurance, History, Housing, Human Rights, Humanity, Immigration, Income, Israel, Jill Stein, Job, Jobs, Justice, Kids, Labor, Law, Learning, LGBT, Life, Living Wage, Meaning, Media, Medicare, Medicare for All, Mental Health, Military, Money, Mother Earth, National, NATO, Nonviolent, Nuclear Power, Nutrition, Obama, Palestine, Partisan, Patriot, Police, Police Brutality, Political, Politics, Pollution, Poor, Poverty, Power, President, Prevention, Prison, Progress, Public Health, Racism, Rage, Refugees, Religion, Responsibility, Rich, Russia, Security, Social Security, State, Status, Substance Abuse, Sustainable, Tar Sands, taxes, Terrorism, Violence, Voters, Voting, Wall Street, War, Wealth, Women, Work, Workplace
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POEM: Re-lying on Day-old Knews
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah The news drones on Massaging and spinning Disembodied heads a top Heartless ‘n titties in dis cursive and desultry means Temperately flailing to wake us From our terrorific slumber Our tired and true rejoinder Hit … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Democracy, Drones, Evil, Farce, Fox News, Humanity, Just for the Health of It, Media, Objectivity, Parodies, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Public Health, Responsibility, Superficial, Toledo, Truth, Vanity, Violence, WAKT
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POEM: Unannunciated Power
Power came to my home for dinner Well, not actually my home, rather my house Not in person, but through a representative Witch some defer to as a medium That would be TV In accuracy, as sum political add All … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Citizens, Commercial, Democracy, government, Hope, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Solidarity, Status, Status Quo, Voters, Work
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POEM: Putting The Monet In Monetize
The starving artist Whose art couldn’t be made Fast enough Fore his dealer Rejecting means Except as accede In awe but name groan Poising as a plant To the extant one can make cents Putting the Monet in monetize This … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Choices, Commercial, Compromise, Conformity, Culture, Death, Efficiency, God, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Irony, Job, Jobs, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Quotes, Society, Success, Surreal, Work
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POEM: Rent This Poem
Rent this poem Call 419-244-2169 This simple poem is a parody of commercialism. This poem mocks the lack of real content in many advertisements. Unfortunately, countless advertisements bombard most any available space in our lives. Such ads compete for our … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Advertising, Commercial, Inane, Mock, Parodies, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems
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POEM: Evolution of a Writer
Evolution of a Writer You have evolved into quite a writer Could you write something for my company? He solicited Presumably thinking I was still into monkey business Not even grasping I was clearly out of my tree This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Business, Commercial, Compromise, Creativity, Darwin, Depression, Evolution, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Future, Humanity, Inspiration, Ironic, Job, Joy, Life, Logic, Market, Materialist, Meaning, Money, Nature, Passion, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Power, Present, Questions, Reality, Science, Scientific Reductionism, Sex, Simplicity, Society, Spiritual, Spirituality, Subjectivity, Success, Transcendent, Truth, Vocation, Work, Worldview
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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: Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl Sunday Guess what I herd It’s Super Bowl™ Sabbath Quite coincidentally on Sunday And I’m not sure who’s playing who Perhaps the Cowboys and Indians Or the Lions and the Christians The eternal argument weather Its just A … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Argument, Arrogance, Balance, Christian, Commercial, Competition, Culture, Domination, Exceptionalism, Faith, Life, Love, Money, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Sabbath, Sports, Time, War, Western Civilization, Work
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POEM: It’s About Time
One day I had a dream God came to me and said Meet me tomorrow at 4:32 pm On the bench In the small park At the corner of Ashland and Collingwood Near your home You have something I want … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Christmas, Commercial, Consumption, Dream, Foolish, God, Humanity, Jesus, Joke, Modern, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Reality, Rich, Soul, Time, Wealth, Worldview
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POEM: Author Author Original
Author Author Original Many great authors Veritable prose Composed Many glorified pages Of legends owed Epitomizing a theme Depicting perfect variations Epic anecdotes In firmity Contracted By edifices Of many stories I prefer the novelty Of a single sentence Unleashing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Commercial, Food, Freedom, Image, Literate, Modern, Monetize, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prose, Puns, Western Civilization
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POEM: Ad Dulled State
Ad Dulled State Well come To this ad dulled state What will it take To see the light Tell a vision Divining every yen Razing the whys Jacking up All that meters Taxi’ing every quarter our Static being drug Swallowing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Commercial, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Food, Freedom, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Pop Culture, Power, Rage, State, Status, Technology, Titanic, Truth, Virtue
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POEM: As We Press Release
As We Press Release The defense department denies killing civilians The state department denies human rights abuses by trade partners The department of energy denies that nuclear power is anything but safe The criminal justice system denies institutional racism The … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Big Brother, Capitalism, Commercial, Conspiracy, Consumerism, Crassness, Criminal Justice System, Defense, Evolution, Expediency, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, GOP, Greed, Hell, Human Rights, Imperialism, Inane, Journalists, Justice, Labor, Life, Militarism, Military, Mind, Nuclear Power, Oppression, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Propaganda, Racism, Social Movements, Sociopathy, State, War
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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: Commercial Interruption
We interrupt this commercial Now that wasn’t so hard Or was it? How many times a day is our consciousness breached by some form of commercial interruption? Way too many times! I consider this commercial assault a major form of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Absurdity, Cathartic, Commercial, Consciousness, Consumerism, Consumption, Control, Culture, Farce, Joy, Life, Living Simply, Meditation, Mind, Mindfulness, Questioning, Short Poems, State, Vanity, Violence, Work
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