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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: Economy
POEM: Capitalism Perfected
Capitalism perfected Wear every won Cells their soul And when Every body No’s that They have A fare price For dreams fabricated And nightmares awoken This poem’s title has a misleading title which implies that capitalism can be perfected. The twist … Continue reading
POEM: A Strange Gift From Smother Earth
I awoke Too the rumble Of a river of cars Getting the goods Being trucked over and over As fuming motorists And fuelish consumers Whirled wide Tank up With great import As their gauges reach emptily A diction Beyond words … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Crude, Economic, Economy, Environment, Environmental, Gift, Humanity, Insanity, Justice, Life, Lifestyle, Military, Mind, Moral, Mother Earth, Nature, Poems, Poet, Poetic Justice, Poetry, Pollution, Silence, Success, Suicide, Sustainable
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POEM: Model Citizen
Rowan was a model citizen One-eighth scale Painstakingly posed With animating make up Almost lifelike This short poem, “Model Citizen,” is a reflection on the life-like which should only be mistaken for life at one’s own peril — or, in … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Change, Citizens, Citizenship, Cliche, Common Good, Community, Consumption, Culture, Death, Democracy, Economy, Elite, Evil, Gandhi, Illusions, Life, Market, Modern, Nature, Play, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Progress, Proprietary, Reality, Religious, Resistance, Rich, Risk, Short Poems, Society, Status, Status Quo, Success, Sustainable, Western Civilization
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POEM: Pseudoscience
After a cursory perusal Of your uncorroborated facts In your unverified application We are pleased to accept The donation of your brain To pseudoscience The great thing about donating your brain to pseudoscience is that such brains are largely unused. … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged algorithm, America, Conspiracy, Economy, Facts, government, Irony, Life, Literacy, Logic, Media, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Progress, Proprietary, Pseudoscience, Science, Short Poems, Truth, Western Civilization
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POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Lottery
I won the lottery Now I am able To outsource My neuroses Winning the lottery is probably one of the most common fantasies, particularly by the math-impaired. Most people assume that getting a large windfall of money will make their life … Continue reading
POEM: Government Listening
I’d like a government that listens More than listens in And NO, I don’t want fries with that! We need to truly listen to one another, in order to create together a democracy that represents us. Democracy is an open … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Accountability, Citizens, Democracy, Economy, government, Inane, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Questions, Reactionary, Reality, Rhetoric, Short Poems, State, Terrorism, Truth, Work
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POEM: Slow Boat to China
Some days I feel like I’m on A slow boat To China Then it hits me More like Being water boarded In America My life is generally at a pretty relaxed pace, and with this I have no complaints. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Big Brother, China, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Denial, Economy, Experience, Fascism, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Short Poems, State, Terrorism, Torture, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Spiritual Economy
The other day I went to my spiritual economist She had already been in receipt of my stack of papers I spoke at some length and detail She noted that I have much that I can not afford She advised … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Conventional Wisdom, Economy, Experience, Life, Materialism, Money, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Questions, Short Poems, Spiritual, Wealth, Wisdom
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POEM: Bull Shit
There are two things I know for sure One, I am way too old for this bull shit Two, I am way too young for this bull shit Okay, it’s more Like one thing In my college freshman english class, … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems
Tagged Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Economy, Gift, Ironic, Irony, Lazy, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems, Truth
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Occupy Wall Street Buttons
I am finally uploaded a new batch of Occupy Wall Street designs. This batch of 125 political designs is mostly Occupy Wall Street designs, but there are also a large series of “stop socialism” designs, a large series of Fox … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News
Tagged Advertising, African American, America, Anarchism, Big Brother, Business, Buttons-Pins, Capitalism, Change, Chaos, Class Warfare, Community, Compassion, Congress, Constitution, Consumption, cool design, Corporate Personhood, Corruption, Crime, Death, Death Penalty, Debt, Democracy, Democrat, Dream, Dreams, Economy, Education, Elections, Environmental, Evolution, Facts, First Amendment, Food, Fox News, Free Speech, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, Funny, Future, Gandhi, God, GOP, government, Greed, Heart, Hell, Human Race, Illegal, Jesus, Jobs, Liberal, Life, Love, Medicare, Military, Mind, Money, National, Normal, Nuclear Power, Occupy Wall Street, Parodies, Police, Political, Politics, Pollution, Poor, Postal Service, Poverty, Power, Protesters, Questions, Reality, Religion, Republican, Responsibility, Revolution, Rich, Risk, Security, Silence, Slavery, Social Security, Socialism, State, Success, taxes, Tea Party, Time, Titanic, Top Pun, Trust, Truth, Vegetarianism, Violence, Wall Street, Wall Street Bull, War, Welfare, Work, Xenophobia
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DTE Shareholder Protest
Between 200 and 200,000 protesters gathered outside the DTE Energy headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. This DTE Energy protest was visited upon by two to 2,000 Occupy Toledo protesters. One unidentified protester, with a striking resemblance to Homer Simpson, wearing a … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Economy, Environmental, Events, leadership, Nuclear Power, Occupy Toledo, Protesters, Protests, Security, Shareholder, Toledo, Top Pun
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May Day Street Theater – Corporate Zombies vs. Village People
This is the script for the street theater production that was performed tonight to kick off Occupy Toledo‘s May Day Fest week’s worth of events: May Day Eve Celebration Occupy Toledo April 30, 2012 “The Corporate Zombies vs. The Village … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political Action
Tagged Accountability, America, Anti-Corporate, Business, Capitalism, Change, Choices, Compassion, Consumerism, Control, Corporate Personhood, Democracy, Depression, Economic, Economy, Environment, Environmental, Events, Family, Farce, Food, Funny, Future, Greed, Health Care, Health Insurance, History, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Inane, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Life, May Day, Meaning, Media, Military, Mock, Money, Mother Earth, Occupy Toledo, Occupy Wall Street, Oppression, Pi, Political, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Propaganda, Recession, Responsibility, Security, Slavery, Society, Soul, State, Stewardship, Suffering, Time, Toledo, Truth, Values, War, Wealth, zombie
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Who’s the One percent and 99 Percent?
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been successful in framing much of the political debate in this country around the concept of who is the 1%, and who are the 99%. Obviously, for those in the United States, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Children, Citizens, Class Warfare, Conflict, Economic, Economy, Evolution, Hope, Income, Inequality, Justice, Money, Occupy Wall Street, Political, Politics, Poor, Poverty, Public Health, Reality, Revolution, Rich, Success, Suffering, Wall Street, War, Wealth, Women
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Corporate Tax Dodger FirstEnergy, Toledo Protest
The corporate tax dodger FirstEnergy paid no income taxes on its over $1.2 billion of profits in 2010. FirstEnergy provides electricity to Toledo and the surrounding area. At noon today, about two dozen protesters gathered outside the corporate headquarters of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Political Action
Tagged Anti-Corporate, Citizens, Class Warfare, Community, Demonstrators, Economy, government, Income, Jobs, Jobs with Justice, Justice, Labor, Lazy, Occupy Toledo, Politics, Protesters, Protests, taxes, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, Welfare
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Valentine’s Day: Show The World Your Love of Justice
Hannah Levintova of Mother Jones magazine has a wake-up call for Valentine’s Day celebrants: Think You’re a Virtuous Valentine? Think Again. She writes: Cut flowers: That bouquet you may be planning to gift today was most likely not grown in … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Children, Colombia, Conspiracy, Consumption, Defense, Economy, Ecuador, Environmental, Facts, Gift, Ironic, Job, Justice, Labor, Living Simply, Love, Mother Jones, Poor, Sex, Sexual Harrassment, Stewardship, Valentine, Women, Workplace
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It’s the Greed, Stupid
It’s the Greed, Stupid POLITICAL BUTTON It’s the Greed, Stupid POLITICAL BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker sheets can … Continue reading →