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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: Doctrine
POEM: What Gives? Owed to Mutually Assured Destruction
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
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Doctrine, Ethics, Evil, Guns, Moral, mutually assured destruction, Necessary Evil, State, War
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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: Technicolored Jesus
Is it time for one of those Come to Jesus moments Wear there is skin in the game Beyond black and white Word And what surrounds Words Becoming flesh Another flood In a see of Red between the lyin’s More … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Blessed, Christianity, Doctrine, Enlightenment, Hell, Holy, Humanity, Jesus, Nonviolence, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Racism, Religion, skin in the game, Slavery, Soul, Time, Violence
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POEM: Treatment…Like…Sewage
Treatment…Like…Sewage I lived in Libertarianville They said “If you want sewage treatment, Just go to some place that has it.” So I did Many don’t live there long I find discussing politics with self-professed Libertarians a vexing experience. Typically, we … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, America, Authority, Balance, Buddhism, Buddhist, Censorship, Choices, Common Good, Compassion, Control, Disease, Doctrine, Dream, Dreams, Experience, Faith, Fear, Free market, Freedom, Fundamentalism, Future, Heart, Humanity, Ideology, Idolatry, Ironic, Irony, Journey, libertarian, Life, Logic, Love, Market, Moral, Nihilism, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Possibility, Present, Public Health, Questioning, Reality, Sacrifice, Skepticism, State, Stupid, Transcendent, Truth, Values, Wisdom, Worldview, 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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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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Birth Control as a Human Right – Toledo Protest
On Friday, February 6, about a dozen protesters gathered outside St. Anne’s Hospital on Secor Road in Toledo, Ohio. This protest was organized by the Toledo Chapter of the National Organization for Women (see Toledo NOW facebook page), it also … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Birth Control, Catholic, Christian, Christianity, Church, Conflict, Conscience, Control, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Doctrine, Events, facebook, Freedom, God, Health Insurance, Hospitality, Human Rights, Idolatry, Ironic, Life, Mystical, National, Nationalism, Obama, Occupy Toledo, Political, President, Protesters, Protests, Radical, Reality, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Respect, Risk, Sacred, Sacrifice, Security, skin in the game, Society, Soul, State, Stewardship, Time, Toledo, Values, Willingness, Wisdom, Women, Work
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