About Top Pun’s Blog
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!
Search Top Pun Blog
My Public Health Radio Show
-
Recent Posts
- POEM: Fallen Reign
- POEM: The Future, The Passed
- POEM: Your Fired
- POEM: I’ll Have a Side of History
- POEM: Bred of Life
- POEM: Scorpions in a Bottle
- POEM: Icarus Flies — The Gathering
- POEM: Healing Fire
- POEM: Net Zeroed
- POEM: Showing Up
- POEM: Taking, Their Q
- POEM: King of the Hill
- POEM: Go Figure — Owed to Haunting Season
- POEM: Wiled Fires
- POEM: Progress
- POEM: Fratricide
- POEM: Relieved of the Magic of Cynicism
- POEM: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
- POEM: Re fooling
- POEM: Monkey Business
- POEM: A Poet’s Currency
- POEM: Love Birds
- POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
- POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
- THANKS for perusing Top Pun's word artistry!
-
Tags
- America
- Awe
- Change
- Control
- Culture
- Death
- Democracy
- Donald Trump
- Experience
- Fear
- Freedom
- Funny
- God
- Heart
- Hope
- Humanity
- Job
- Justice
- Law
- Life
- Love
- Meaning
- Mind
- Modern
- Money
- Moral
- Nature
- Poems
- Poetry
- Political
- Politics
- Poor
- Power
- Present
- Reality
- Religion
- Short Poems
- Soul
- State
- Time
- Truth
- Violence
- War
- Wisdom
- Work
Tag Archives: Employment
Feminist POEM: Me Too — Now A Brand Knew Whirled Of Daughters
They rise from along history Yet much more so from her story As tectonic plates ready to serve up Unseen Earthquakes From a thousand generations reserved in silence Now a brand knew Whirled of daughters A raze of sisters A … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Catholic, Change, Civil Rights, Congress, Control, Crime, Denial, Discrimination, Employment, evangelicals, Experience, Faith, Feminist, Forgiveness, Future, Gender, Health Care, Hell, History, Holy, Immigration, Inspiration, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Me Too movement, Money, National, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Power, Prayer, Present, Progress, Sex, sexual assault, Silence, State, Status, Supreme Court, Time, Trust, Truth, Women, Workplace, Worldview
Leave a comment
Testimony for National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service — END DRAFT REGISTRATION
I prepared the below testimony to present at a public meeting in Chicago before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, a commission created by Congress to deal with questions of draft registration, most specifically, whether to end … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, and Public Service, Balance, Blessing, Business, Change, Character, Charity, Children, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, Coercion, Community, Compulsion, Congress, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Constitution, Constitutional Rights, Control, Cowardice, Creation, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Draft Registration, Education, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Farce, Fear, Female, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, Future, Gandhi, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Heart, History, Holy, Honesty, Hope, Hospitality, Human Rights, Humanity, Ideals, Idolatry, Inspiration, Ironic, Jesus, Job, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Love, Meaning, Media, Mennonite, Mercy, Military, Modern, Moral, Murder, Muslims, National, National Commission on Military, National Security, Nature, Necessary Evil, Noncombatants, Obedience, Patience, Peacemakers, People of The Book, Perspective, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Present, President, Prison, Public Health, Questions, Radical, Reality, Refugees, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Resistance, Rhetoric, Risk, Rules, Russia, Sacred, Security, Selective Service System, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Suffering, Supreme Court, Surreal, Terrorism, Time, Toledo, Truth, Values, Violence, War, Women, Work, Worship
1 Comment
FREE ANTI-TRUMP POSTER: Trump Touts Pillar of Jobs Program – Lowest black unemployment since slavery, and I promise a return to 100 percent black employment
This free poster melds the themes of Prez Donald Trump’s love of capital over workers and his palpable racism. The Trump tax plan is proof enough that The Don doesn’t care about increasing income inequality and that redressing Black economic … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Creation, Donald Trump, Economic, Economy, Employment, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Income, Inequality, Job, Jobs, Labor, Love, Productivity, Racism, Slavery, Wealth, Work
Leave a comment
BIGGEST. WITCH HUNT. EVER.
Donald Trump’s full employment program for comedians is in full swing. Perhaps the only weakness in this full employment program for comedians is that Donald Trump is a master of self-parody. So, sometimes, to trump the master, you have to … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political Cartoons
Tagged Donald Trump, Employment, Farce, Funny, Humor, Image
Leave a comment
POEM: Of Coarseness
Don’t put won over me F every won Flunk sexism Flunk racism Flunk classism Flunk nationalism And sow on And sow on In effability Of coarse They say Vulgarity vulgarity Every ware I look In just US The capital of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awareness, Awe, Capitalism, Classism, Crude, Employment, Experience, Farce, Injustice, Law, Life, Morality, Nationalism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Privilege, Propriety, Racism, Sacred, Sexism, Society, Status, Superficial, Surreal, Tao, Virtue
Leave a comment
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
Leave a comment
COMEDIAN JESUS: Pax Romana — You’re Killing Me!
This Comedian Jesus political cartoon highlights the shallow liberalism and false choices of Pax Romana, the metaphorical stand-in for Pax Americana, peace through so-called enlightened domination. This Comedian Jesus cartoon also ties the all-too-convenient collaboration of political and religious elites … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Accountability, America, Authority, Awe, Cartoon, Children, Choices, Church, Citizens, Citizenship, Comics, Creation, Death, Domination, Employment, Funny, God, Hope, Ideals, Imperialism, Jesus, Martyrdom, Military, Modern, Money, Mother Earth, Nonviolence, Parodies, Perspective, Political, Powers that be, Privilege, Questioning, Racism, Radical, Reality, Religious, Revolution, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Western Civilization, Xenophobia
Leave a comment
POEM: Annoys Pollution
Every wear but hear Beeping phones And nobody at home Impossible to a tone Even with wringing personally With poor timing Watching volumes A little too lewd Mindless won And awe the artless With every bell and whistle Ears unplugged … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Art, Awe, Busyness, Civil Disobedience, Employment, Freedom, Funny, Inane, Life, Logic, Mind, Mindfulness, Modern, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Pollution, Poor, Progress, Religion, Responsibility, Silence, Spiritual, Western Civilization, Zen
Leave a comment
PUCO Testimony – FirstEnergy Robbery of Ratepayers
Below is my testimony at the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) hearing regarding the proposed corporate welfare for FirstEnergy. There was an impressive show of force by the anti-nuclear and pro-environmental folks from the region. There was a show … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Authority, Change, Congress, Control, Death, Economic, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Events, Faith, Farce, Future, government, Ironic, Job, Life, Market, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Pollution, Poor, Power, Public Health, Rich, Risk, Sustainable, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, Truth, Welfare, Work
Leave a comment
POEM: Big Bang Burrito®
Under a first rate inquisition I mussed a test I don’t know If God Can make A bean burrito so big That God can’t Eat it Such a peerless quest in May be Scorn points with sum To be little … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, Authority, Curiosity, Employment, Experience, God, Image, Jewish, Joke, Mind, Mock, Mystery, Poems, Poetry, Questioning, Questions, Religion, Spiritual, Spirituality, Stupid, Time, Universe
Leave a comment
POEM: Wage Slave Be Free
I am not a wage slave I am free And worth every penny This week, I celebrated 10 years free from wage slavery! My ensuing poverty has been a small price to pay for this freedom. I am the richest … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Climate Change, Diminishing Returns, Economic, Employment, Environment, Experience, Freedom, Happiness, History, Income, Job, Jobs, Labor, Life, Lifestyle, Living Simply, Money, Poems, Poetry, Poverty, Power, Productivity, Rich, Short Poems, Slavery, Success, Sustainable, Western Civilization, Work
Leave a comment
POEM: We Won’t Be Food Again
I would rather Be Job Less than Renounce A living wager And know place to lie My head My heart Made homeless In loo of A fast fooled nation For going The beast Wee Can due Hitched to number one … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, America, Ancient, Authority, Awe, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Change, Children, Community, Compassion, Consumerism, Conundrum, Counter-Cultural, Creation, Culture, Debt, Dehumanizing, Discrimination, Disease, Disenfranchised, Dream, Dreams, Economic, Elite, Employment, Enemies, Equality, Experience, Failure, Faith, Family, Food, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Genius, God, government, Harmony, Hate, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Hope, Income, Inequality, Intimacy, Jesus, Job, Jobs, Journey, Justice, Labor, Law, Life, Living Wage, Love, Meaning, Money, Oppression, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Political, Poor, Poverty, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, President, Privilege, Productivity, Prophet, Proverb, Reality, Religious, Respect, Rhetoric, Rich, Risk, Sabbath, Sacred, Scarcity, Science, Simplicity, Slavery, Society, Soul, Spiritual, State, Status, Status Quo, Time, Truth, Values, Vulnerability, War, Wealth, Western Civilization, Willingness, Wisdom, Women, Work, Worldview, Worship
Leave a comment
POEM: High Cost of Employment
Despite the high cost of employment It is still quite popular This short poem is a takeoff or elaboration of Will Rogers’ infamous statement: Despite the high cost of living, it’s still quite popular. As wage slavery continues largely unabated, … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Creation, Employment, Freedom, Health Care, Hope, Income, Joy, Labor, Life, Meaning, Monetize, Money, Obama, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Slavery, Time, Work, Workplace
Leave a comment