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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: Insanity
POEM: Beating The Conundrum
Blessed be the peacemakers. It will take awe we have to secure peace. May the fog of war give weigh to the tsunami of love rising in the see of humanity. Beating The Conundrum The peacemakers cried Everybody for everybody … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conundrum, Enemies, Humanity, Insanity, Love, Peacemakers, War
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POEM: A Madder of Time
This poem plays with the notions of patience and urgency in a whirled that can be crazy, like berserkers crying for help. The tempting insanity of joining the frenetic pace of crazy can’t just be brushed off, as some sane … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Crazy, Insanity, Patience, Time
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found
Trump Pulls Out As Partners Dumb Found Sow culpable Too due nothing President Trump pulls out What little hand He had in Mother Earth’s Safe guarding His oily and gassy mates Coal for everyone! It’s like Christmas!! And stocks sore … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Argument, Business, Change, Children, Christmas, Climate Change, Community, Defense, Denial, Donald Trump, Environmental, Free market, government, Hope, Humanity, Insanity, Kindness, Law, leadership, Love, Market, Meditation, Mother Earth, Patriot, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, President, Propriety, Resistance, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Russia, Solidarity, Time, Trust
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POEM: Enlightenment Not Worth Beings
Conversing in the street At a protest We had a very enlightening pow wow As too in form me He stated with qualm assurance “Protest before enlightenment, protest after enlightenment” A parity of action Like I had never seen To … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Accountability, Amorality, Balance, Enlightenment, Evil, God, Human Rights, Individualism, Insanity, Life, Materialism, Meaning, Nature, New Age, Philosophy, Present, Privilege, Progress, Reactionary, Religion, Society, Soul, Spiritual, Spirituality, Trust, Truth
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PALESTINIAN JEW JESUS: Yahoo Netanyahu
This first in a potential series of Palestinian Jew Jesus comics was inspired by the latest insanity of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In his continuing gross caricature of Israeli domination over Palestinians, he one day claims that Palestine doesn’t even … Continue reading
POEM: More of the Sane
Going through life Various docks said You are just Going through a phrase And heeling Wood be Yores soon Enough Finally cured Of awe That is Green With envy Of what might Passably be More of the sane This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Awe, Children, Conventional Wisdom, Courage, Creation, Envy, Experience, Facts, Freedom, Gift, God, Image, Insanity, Life, Love, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Present, Rage, Recycling, Respect, Risk, Science, Security, Status, Status Quo, Truth, Willingness, Wisdom, Work
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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: Enlightening Reflection
I looked into his eyes And I could see the devil More lightly peering It was eye A most enlightening reflection Seeing double This short poem hopes to shed some light on the concept of psychological projection. Projection strikes me … Continue reading
Posted in News, Uncategorized
Tagged Accountability, Attitude, Awareness, Balance, Change, Character, Choices, Consciousness, Control, Denial, Dream, Dreams, Environment, Evil, Experience, Freedom, Gift, Heart, Hope, Human Nature, Humanity, Insanity, Joy, Lazy, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Patience, Perspective, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Projection, Psychology, Reality, Responsibility, Rich, Self-Awareness, Short Poems, State, Status, Status Quo, Victim Blaming, Wisdom, Work
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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: Fermi Too
From Detroit to Toledo I drive by and by Monroe’s Fermi 2 Nuclear waste tower Falling over Penning only A plume of death In place of this poet A prophet taking Having called for its decommissioning Offers no comfort Only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Commercial, Creation, Death, God, Insanity, Life, Loss, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Police, Power, Prophet, Protesters, Security, Toledo
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POEM: Not Right in the Head
I am just Not right In the head Just left Of center Heart beats For know reason To love The mathematician, physicist and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, said, “The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.” For most of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Business, Change, Courage, Crazy, Culture, Enlightenment, Exceptionalism, Future, Heart, History, Insanity, Logic, Love, Modern, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, State, Stupid, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: I Do What I Love
I do what I love I do what I love One of my greatest tenets of evangelism, sharing of good news, is encouraging all to follow their passions and do what they love to do. It is a form of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Insanity, Life, Love, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Spiritual
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BP Tar Sands Refinery Expansion – PEOPLE’S HEARING Testimony
Below is my testimony at the PEOPLE’S HEARING to respond to the Ohio EPA’s sham public hearing on BP-Husky’ Draft Air Pollution Permit as part of their Oregon Ohio refinery re-tooling to process oil tar sands, the dirtiest oil on the … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, News, Political Action
Tagged Addiction, America, Ancient, Beauty, Business, Change, Children, Citizens, Community, Congress, Crime, Culture, Democracy, Economic, Environment, Environmental, government, Greed, History, Humanity, Insanity, Jobs, Justice, Life, Money, Mother Earth, mother nature, Nature, Occupy Toledo, Play, Poems, Poetry, Pollution, Power, Progress, Public Health, Scarcity, State, Stewardship, Sustainable, Tar Sands, Time, Toledo, Trust, Wealth, Women, Work
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POEM: Wrong Ballpark
Being in the wrong ballpark is a mere scheduling error Maybe I need a game changer This simple two-line poem is meant to challenge the reader regarding both the size and nature of change that may be needed to change … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Change, Diminishing Returns, Image, Insanity, Life, Meaning, Mind, Nature, Paradigm Shift, Poetry, Reality, Short Poems
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Blood Donor Deferrals Border on Insanity
I just returned from donating blood at the American Red Cross. I have been a regular blood donor for a long time. I usually donate blood two or three times a year. Unfortunately, I have been deferred as a blood … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Health, News
Tagged Absolute Security, Advertising, American Red Cross, Balance, Blood Donors, Change, Choices, Colombia, Control, Crazy, Culture, Disease, Environment, Epidemiology, Events, Experience, Fear, Haiti, Hate, Health Care, Heterosexual, Hope, Insanity, Life, Loss, Military, Perspective, Political, Prevention, Public Health, Questions, Relationships, Risk, Security, Sex, Technology, Time, Vanity, Willingness, Women, Zero Risk
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Direction Headed
If Do Not Change Direction End Up Where Headed–PEACE QUOTE BUTTON If Do Not Change Direction End Up Where Headed–PEACE QUOTE BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, … Continue reading →