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Tag Archives: Competition
POEM: Calling Awe Taxidermists
I suspect each of us has encountered fakes, stiffs, who too routinely fail to treat others humanely, seemingly deadened by their own, lifeless stuff. Thus, this poem: Calling Awe Taxidermists He was his own Worst faux And stiff Was his … Continue reading
POEM: Winning The Stockholm Sin-drome
This is another in my series of poems on artificial intelligence. I suspect that the “wow factor” of some early AI uses will serve as a sucker punch for a largely bloodless beating. While I am skeptical of many AI … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, Competition, Crazy, Death, Environment, Fear, Humanity, Learning, Love, Money, Moral, Poems, Poor, Society, Sustainable, Technology, Work, Worship
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POEM: Over Shadowing Evolution
This poem is an invitation to live beyond mere Darwinism, survival of the fittest, which is typically viewed as competition and inevitable violence. I vote for cooperation and beautiful ambitions far exceeding won more f-ing generation. We do not live … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Beautiful, Competition, Cooperation, Evolution, Violence
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POEM: The Ins and Outs of Breathing
Which is better To breathe in or out At their annual convention This was the question Of the year Not a moment Too soon As immanent researchers congregated Took sides Gave talks Of oxygen and carbon dioxide Aerobic capacity and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Balance, Competition, Culture, Harmony, Inspiration, Justice, Love, Meditation, Nature, Philosophical, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Science, Social Justice, Truth, Women, Zen
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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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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Donald Trump Swamped With Taxing Situations, Declares MOST UNDRAINING EVER!
Donald Trump’s promise to “Drain the swamp” from Washington, DC, is perhaps his most surreal promise of all. Today, President Donald Trump is campaigning for Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been facing mounting credible evidence of his predatory sexual … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Competition, Congress, Corruption, Debt, Defense, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economic, Economy, Egalitarian, Elite, Enemies, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Faith, Family, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Future, Genius, History, Housing, Hypocrisy, Image, Income, Inequality, Institutions, Intellectual Property, Irony, Jobs, Justice, Labor, Law, libertarian, Mind, Partisan, Perspective, Political, Politics, Power, President, Progress, Republican, Risk, Roy Moore, Rules, State, Surreal, Time, Trust, Truth, Values, Voters, Wealth, Work
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POEM: Plodding Vivacious Nature
While I was busy Doing my busyness Over taking My competition Nature was successively Undertaking my previous busyness done Supplanting my decomposing legacy With crop worth feasting on In treating me As patience heel Going Won better Nature calls Barely … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Busyness, Competition, Creation, Environmental, Hospitality, Life, Love, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Time
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POEM: A Brother Lying
Prey fore the dead In the name of Jesus In resurrection of those soully asleep Getting a phallus rise Out of Christianity That is, US More sow then radical Islam In violate fundamental lists Dissembling faith, hope, and love As … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Christian, Christianity, Competition, Death, Democracy, Domination, Faith, Family, God, Grace, Heart, Hope, Image, Islam, Jesus, Justice, Lazy, Life, Love, Meaning, Militarism, Military, Moral, Muslim, Muslims, Nationalism, Nature, Pacifism, Patriotism, People of The Book, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Racism, Radical, Religion, Religious, Resurrection, Reverence, Sacred, Sacrifice, State, Terrorism, Violence, War, Worldview
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POEM: Fore Awe That Can Be Souled
He lived buy The law of the jungle Except for that whole jungle thing And law Fore that madder Welcome too Living bye A-morality A-weigh of living A-lien from nature As not giving One ascent Fore awe that can be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Beautiful, Character, Competition, Death, Evil, Experience, Fear, Gift, Greed, Human Nature, Humanity, Inspiration, Law, Life, Moral, Morality, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Respect, Reverence, Soul, Time, Violence
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POEM: Speaking With Spoken Sword: Owed To Hungering Fore Anew ProMedica
The profit tiers Some how a peer To set the captives free Going won after the other Like mammon and famine As to somehow heel the ravenous As fiend and faux As sow appetite for the pauper reproach With such … Continue reading
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: In Jesting Another Triple Crown
America’s quest for monarchy Failed again A triple crown thwarted The quest for total domination Foundering Another cracker jack faux A for-see-able sir prize Californian gold transmuted Into chrome Bronzed A tanned hide Soon forgotten A hoarse race A poorer … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Business, Celebrity, Competition, Consciousness, Cooperation, Domination, Dream, Egalitarian, Elite, Enemies, Exceptionalism, Experience, Hope, Life, Love, Morality, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Rich, Sports, Vulnerability
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POEM: As the Show Must…Go On!
As the Show Must…Go On! Desperately seeking an audience With kings, queens, and commoners Call in the troupes! Who will perform her Aspiring thespians Willing to do Shakespeare Or any low brow play right As parts are parts Whether broad … Continue reading
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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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Ancient, Art, Authorities, Authority, Awareness, Bible, Blessed, Blessing, budgets, Capitalism, Change, Character, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Rights, Classism, Common Good, Community, Compassion, Competition, Conscience, Consumerism, Control, Conundrum, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Creativity, Death, Defense, Denial, Domestic Violence, Domination, Dream, Economic, Egalitarian, Enemies, Equality, Evil, Facts, Failure, Faith, Family, Fear, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Future, Gender, Gift, God, government, Grace, Greed, Harmony, Hate, Healing, Heart, Heaven, Hell, History, Holy, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Idolatry, Image, Immorality, Impersonal, Incarnation, Inequality, Injustice, Intimacy, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Journey, Joy, Justice, Kindness, Labor, Law, leadership, Life, Logic, Loss, Love, Market, Materialism, Meaning, Mercy, Militarism, Military, Mind, Modern, Money, Moral, Morality, Nationalism, Nature, Nonviolence, Patience, Patriarchy, Patriotism, Perspective, Philosophy, Piety, Political, Politics, Poor, Possessions, Power, Powers that be, Prayer, Present, Prison, Privilege, Prophet, Questioning, Questions, Racism, Radical, Rage, Reality, Reconciliation, Relationships, Religious, Responsibility, Resurrection, Revolution, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Science, Security, Sexism, Society, Solidarity, Songs, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Stewardship, Success, Suffering, Temptation, Theology, Time, Toledo, Truth, Unity, Unjust Laws, Values, Violence, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Wisdom, Work, Worship
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POLITICAL CARTOON: CEO Jesus – Birthers
CEO Jesus Arises to the Occasion! CEO Jesus really rises to the occasion this week of Easter! What could be tougher than answering the difficult and often inane questions put forth at a press conference? In his first go around, … Continue reading
Posted in Political Cartoons
Tagged Cartoon, Change, Christianity, Comics, Competition, Control, Death, Doctrine, Dogma, Evil, Facts, Funny, Inane, Jesus, Life, Love, Modern, Oppression, Political, Power, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Religion, Resurrection, Science, Spiritual, Truth, Western Civilization, Women
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Anarchism: Cooperation, Decentralization, Social Cohesion
David Morris writes in On the Commons, regarding the anniversary of the death of the Russian Peter Kropotkin, an article: Anarchism Is Not What You Think It Is — And There’s a Whole Lot We Can Learn from It: The … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Authoritarian, Chaos, Character, Competition, Cooperation, Darwin, Death, Decentralization, Evolution, Humanity, Inequality, Injustice, Intellect, Kropotkin, leadership, Lenin, Life, Mind, Moral, Nature, Nihilism, Politics, Poverty, Privilege, Radical, Revolution, Revolutionary, Russia, Science, Society, Time, Tyranny, Wealth, Work
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