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Tag Archives: Failure
POEM: Oh Israel, Unequivocally State Fallowed Script Her
I have always admired the Torah and Old Testament perpetual reminders of “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,” and the precept, “You shall not oppress … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Failure, Food, God, Hell, History, Israel, Modern, Muslims, Palestine, Palestinian, People of The Book, Religion, Religious, Sacred, State, Truth, Xenophobia, Zionist
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POEM: Anchoring Our Humanity
At the time of publication of this poem the five souls lost in Horizon’s Titan submersible have not been found or rescued. Anchoring Our Humanity An other deep see adventure On the Horizon Look out A sentry after One Titanic … Continue reading
POEM: The Child Got Their Shot
A poem that came from know wear… The Child Got Their Shot The child got their shot Not at earnest learning Or playful preoccupation Not at hard work rewarded Or hopes fully fed The child got their shot A bullet … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Dreams, Failure, Future, leadership, Learning, Life, Soul, Temptation, Titanic, Work
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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
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COMMUNITY FORUM REMARKS: Need to address the main driver of criminal and criminalized behavior, substance abuse, and that the failed law enforcement model needs to be supplanted by a public health model driven by evidence and community benefit
The Community Solidarity Response Network of Toledo (CSRN), our local Black Lives Matter group, and the ACLU hosted a forum on “What Does a Safer Toledo Look Like?” This forum was in response to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ National Public Safety … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Community, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Education, Failure, Health Care, Housing, Illegal, Jeff Sessions, Job, Justice, Law, Law Enforcement, Mental Health, National, Play, Poor, Poverty, Prevention, Probability, Public Health, Society, Solidarity, Substance Abuse, Toledo, War, Willingness, Work
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Toledo Democracy Day Testimony: Focus on Racism, White Supremacy
Below is the testimony I delivered today before Toledo City Council, or rather the three council members who showed up. The mayor also showed up for part of the testimony. Democracy Day Testimony March 5, 2018 Hi, my name is … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Community, Criminal Justice System, Danny Brown, Democracy, Drug War, Education, Failure, Housing, Income, Injustice, Institutions, Justice, Law, Life, Media, Money, Murder, Nature, Nonviolent, Police, Powers that be, Present, Pride, Prison, Public Health, Questions, Racism, Society, Solidarity, Status, Status Quo, Time, Toledo, War
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Republican Leaders Gather To Celebrate Their Tax Scam
The coalition of deplorables known as the Republican leadership are celebrating the careening success of their ill-considered, hypocritical, and mean-spirited tax scam. Now, perhaps the only hope for sane Americans is that GOP leaders will stumble over themselves in their … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Conservative, Donald Trump, Economic, Evil, Failure, Family, free poster, Free Posters, GOP, Hope, Hypocritical, Income, Inequality, Law, leadership, Money, Patience, Political, Republican, Success, taxes, Time, Wall Street, Wealth
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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
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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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THIRD PARTY POEM: A Door Number Three
A Door Number Three Caught a mist The cross Fire Between partisan streams Shooting for number won Too put out In A narrow mined field Wear white is anti-black And black is nonwhite So fanatical about your stripes Yet no … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Business, Celebrity, Choices, Citizens, Control, Cynicism, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Dreams, Elite, Exceptionalism, Failure, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, leadership, National, Oligarchy, Partisan, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Reality, Republican, Resistance, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Surreal, Sustainable, Third Party, Time, Wealth, Worship
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POEM: Rousing Fresh Fortune
To no what is possible Sum look too the passed To undertake certainties Too due dreams untested Some are moved Bye this present Liberating futures seized And undo The knot tied And never tried How Ever prospecting possibilities in awe … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Art, Awe, Control, Curiosity, Dream, Dreams, Existential, Experience, Failure, Future, Gift, Heart, Joy, Life, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Religious, Science, Spiritual, Top Pun, Yogi Berra
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FREE HILLARY CLINTON POSTER: Because…”Extremely Careless” May Just Be Good Enough
This free Hillary Clinton poster was inspired by her recent vindication by the FBI as only being “extremely careless” with classified information. I sympathize with Hillary Clinton regarding her relentless attacks from right-wingers. Still, the carte blanche impunity afforded people in … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Change, Failure, Family, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, government, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Job, Justice, Law, National, National Security, Political, Power, Secrets, Security, State, Time, Top Pun
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POEM: Wee Civil Lies: They Brutalize
We are prone Too civil lies The most savage saving Buy brutal lies As assuredly As they had Been stood up Just the same For their own Good Won morality for us None for them Hidden as mirror Human eyes … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, China, Death, Equality, Evil, Failure, Fear, Hate, Heart, Human Rights, Humanity, Imperialism, Justice, Life, Love, Morality, Nationalism, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Power, Privilege, Revolutionary, Sacrifice, Security, State, Terrorism, Violence, War
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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: Nothing New Under The Sun
There is nothing new under the sun Though in the shadows The same old same old Is more mournfully familiar Settling for reality-lite Too at home with night Groping with eyes open Instead of lightly touched Even with eyes closed … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Control, Disease, Efficiency, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Fear, Foolish, Freedom, Generosity, God, Grace, Gratitude, Greed, Heart, Humanity, Job, Liberal, Life, Market, Meaning, Money, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Religion, Respect, Scarcity, Security, Silence, Sleep, Status, Suffering, Worldview
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POEM: Be Riffed of Life
He said “The world is inert.” I said “You mean Dead?” He re-plied That it is Assure thing Beyond doubt I queeried “On your incite Or the out?” By all means Necessary As you must And arbitrary mold No higher … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Denial, Evolution, Experience, Failure, Life, Materialist, Mourning, Nature, Perspective, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Power, Projection, Subjectivity, Surreal, Universe
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POEM: God Gets a Bad Wrap
God gets a bad wrap As do men Gloom Over Rite and wrong Babies borne of bathwater Throne buy themselves Like clay Giving rise To the pitter potter of little feats And inconceivable images Speaking out laud In a class … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Authority, Awe, Blessed, Character, Curiosity, Denial, Einstein, Enemies, Experience, Failure, Faith, God, Grace, Guns, Hubris, Humanity, Impersonal, Intellect, Ironic, Justice, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Mystical, Nature, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Power, Pride, Questioning, Questions, Reality, Relationships, Rich, Silence, Simplicity, Skepticism, Spiritual, State, Transcendence, Transcendent, Truth, Universe, Women
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POEM: The Game of Life
One day I realized The game of life And going back In the box Only to find The rules had been lost Long a go And still The game goes on This short poem plays with the notion that life … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Ancient, Attitude, Authority, Awe, Buddhism, Change, Character, China, Consciousness, Courage, Creativity, Evil, Experience, Failure, Faith, Foolish, Freedom, God, Greed, Hate, Hope, Humor, Hypocrisy, Idealism, Insanity, Institutionalize, Irreverence, Joy, Life, Love, Militarism, Mind, Modern, Obedience, Pacifism, Play, Playfulness, Political, President, Psychology, Questioning, Rage, Reality, Religion, Religious, Respect, Reverence, Rhetoric, Rich, Rules, Sacred, Sincerity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Success, Truth, Universe, Utopia, Violence, War, Willingness, Wisdom, Zen
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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
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POEM: Davis-Besse Nuclear Disaster – “Good Job”
It was early Monday mourning When the Davis-Besse nuclear plant Finally ruptured At the base of Lake Eerie Weeping poison From the once-great lakes Now a watery grave for both sellers And consumers Of atomic drivel For what human remains … Continue reading