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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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- 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
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Tag Archives: Justice
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
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FREE Anti-Trump POSTER: DUMP Trump, TRUMP Dump — It all makes sense when you realize that the “T” is silent
Confused about the daily antics of Donald Trump and his regime of toadies? Perhaps this will clear it up. I give you this FREE Anti-Trump POSTER: DUMP Trump, TRUMP Dump — “It all makes sense when you realize that the “T” … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political and Philosophical Musings, Web Specials
Tagged America, anti-Trump, Army, Business, Children, Citizens, Community, Conflict, Congress, Constitution, Donald Trump, Ethical, Ethics, Family, Female, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Free Speech, government, History, Housing, Job, Justice, Law, leadership, Media, Military, Mock, National, National Security, Police, Political, Poor, Power, President, Protesters, Responsibility, Russia, Security, State, Supreme Court, Time, Transgender, Violence, War, War Crimes, Work
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Judge Kavanaugh covers Trump – I’ve got your back, that is, backside – “We should not burden a sitting President with civil suits, criminal investigations, or criminal prosecution.”
Prez Donald Trump is all about Donald Trump. The Don picks a perfect cabal member to cover his ass from the Supreme Court bench. Judge Brett Kavanaugh has demonstrated huge judicial deference to expansive executive power. In tribute to this … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abortion, Argument, Authority, Congress, Constitution, Control, Crime, Defense, Donald Trump, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Health Care, Justice, Law, Logic, Media, Musings, National, Political, Power, President, Questioning, Questions, Supreme Court
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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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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: US Attorney General Jeff Sessions Putting The Zero In Tolerance
The racist and zero tolerant U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is now gearing up to prosecute, imprison, and separate children from their mothers, any refugee seeking asylum from criminal violence in their own country. Perhaps Mr. Sessions, at home … Continue reading
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
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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: PREZ DONALD TRUMP – To address school shootings we will now be teaching “fortress mentality” in all schools
Further militarization of an already over-militarized society is analogous to the infamous sociologist Homer Simpson declaring that alcohol is the cause and solution to all of our problems. We are a country drunk on hyper-masculinity that is toxic to peace … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged anti-Trump, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Culture, Donald Trump, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Gender, Guns, Hypermasculinity, Justice, masculinity, Patriarchy, Political, rape culture, Responsibility, Security, sexual assault, Society, Time, Violence, Women
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Donald Trump Swamped With Taxing Situations, Declares MOST UNDRAINING EVER!
Donald Trump’s promise to “Drain the swamp” from Washington, DC, is perhaps his most surreal promise of all. Today, President Donald Trump is campaigning for Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been facing mounting credible evidence of his predatory sexual … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Competition, Congress, Corruption, Debt, Defense, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economic, Economy, Egalitarian, Elite, Enemies, Environment, Environmental, Experience, Faith, Family, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Future, Genius, History, Housing, Hypocrisy, Image, Income, Inequality, Institutions, Intellectual Property, Irony, Jobs, Justice, Labor, Law, libertarian, Mind, Partisan, Perspective, Political, Politics, Power, President, Progress, Republican, Risk, Roy Moore, Rules, State, Surreal, Time, Trust, Truth, Values, Voters, Wealth, Work
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FREE POSTER: GOP Greedy Old Perverts Sexual Predator-in-Chief Donald Trump and Roy Moore
Dirty old men, predominantly dirty old white men, are running rampant throughout our culture and politics. A long overdue push back is underway as many powerful sexual predators are finally being held to some account. The cutting edge of this … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Authoritarian, Beautiful, Children, Christian, Community, Conservative, Conspiracy, Crime, Culture, Democrat, Donald Trump, Enemies, Fascism, free poster, Free Posters, Future, God, GOP, Hypermasculinity, Hypocrisy, Illegal, Justice, Kids, Lawyer, Lifestyle, Martyrdom, Military, Minorities, Moral, Muslim, National, Nationalism, Nature, Nazi, Normal, Patriarchy, Political, Politics, Power, Present, President, Reactionary, Redemption, Religious, Republican, Revolution, Rhetoric, Right-Wing, Roy Moore, Sex, sexual assault, Socialism, State, Success, Supreme Court, Time
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FREE POSTER: Who Would Jesus Masturbate In Front Of? American Evangelical Apologists for Sexual Predation Reach a New Low . . . And Keep Reaching
I am sickened by American evangelical so-called Christians serving as apologists for sexual predation. There is a seriously dark evil engulfing Christians who profess conservative sexual morality and also serve as the first line of defense of sexual predators, whether … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christian, Christianity, Conservative, Culture, Defense, evangelicals, Evil, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Jesus, Justice, Morality, Perspective, rape culture, Sexism, sexual assault, Sexual Harrassment, Social Justice, Women
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POEM: Promedica My Ass — Owed To Branding
Logos used Too mean Know ledge Like that age owed ad vice Would you jump off a bridge If every won ails did As in sayin’ Bye your good will As money oozes from the non-prophet, health care (sic) system … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Funny Poems, Health, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Commercial, Community, Conundrum, Defense, Family, Gandhi, Genius, Health Care, Justice, Life, Living Wage, Love, Money, Mourning, Poet, Poetry, ProMedica, Prophet, Proprietary, Propriety, Resistance, Rich, skin in the game, Social Justice, State, Status, Tao, Time, Toledo
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A Spiritual Autobiography
I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group. While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Gay, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anxiety, Art, Authority, Beautiful, Bible, Blessed, Buddhism, Business, Catholic, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Disobedience, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Crude, Death, Diversity, Draft Registration, Environment, Events, Experience, Faith, Family, Food, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Hope, Humor, Irreverence, Jester, Job, Journey, Justice, Kids, Law, leadership, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, Mennonite, Military, Mind, Mom, Money, Mystic, Nutrition, Obedience, Pacifism, Pastor, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Political, Poor, Poverty, Powers that be, Prayer, President, Public Health, Religious, Reverence, Science, Security, Serenity, Social Justice, Spiritual, Stewardship, Success, Theology, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Vegetarianism, War, Work, World Hunger, Worship, Zen
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POLITICAL POEM: Fighting Exclusively
It was his thing Fighting exclusively Battles he could win His crowning I deal Never finding himself On-the-cide of losers Whirled why’d Naught ails But win Filling his sales Whatever He could bye A captain of destiny In habiting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Security, Amorality, Awe, Business, Capitalism, Change, Character, Culture, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dreams, Equality, Ethical, Ethics, Greed, Heart, Helplessness, Hope, Human Rights, Ideals, Justice, Loss, Megalomania, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, President, Privilege, Sacred, Security, skin in the game, Sociopathy, Solidarity, Status, Success, Suffering, Truth, Values
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POLITICAL POEM: Unite In The Write
Poets of the world unite Delivering a bill of writes To the regressive elite And overcompensating narcissists May the love of word in deed Translate into a raging river of love Pounding against that professed shore thing Strait from the … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Elite, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Justice, Life, Love, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, Short Poems, Solidarity, Work
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POLITICAL POEM: Heir Conditioning
As things went south South goes north Truly Global warning is real There is an arising From the fires in bellies And home fires burning In efface of doors closed Windows open Those crazy few Committed Those sober many Just … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Capitalism, Climate Change, Crazy, Donald Trump, Farce, Injustice, Justice, Mother Earth, Mourning, Oligarchy, Patriarchy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Racism, Right-Wing, Solidarity, Wisdom
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POLITICAL POEM: In Daze Not To Follow
The plantation had fallen Into this repair As fore many Present Work Over and above The well, known Used Too deep scars And familiar ditches dug Subject to an other privilege However bound Too knew found freedom And worldwide travails … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Chaos, Courage, Cynicism, Donald Trump, Experience, Freedom, Future, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Present, Privilege, Questions, Racism, Reality, Solidarity, Stupid, Work
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POEM: Sum How Present In A Stupefying Flash
Creation groans In pregnant expectancy More than Any one Ever anew In a singular couplet The quest in And the call out For who All Abel to hear Blood from ground Crying in relation To the curse of can and … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Awe, Creation, Justice, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Solidarity
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POEM: Unleashed
As anger and grief morphs Into the habits and vagaries of daily life The heart is circled by its waggin’s In loo of revolutions more roil As if Too be stuck In The mettle Only to be Haunted by cursory … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anger, Authoritarian, Awe, Balance, Change, Consciousness, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Elections, Future, Heart, Hope, Justice, Life, Loss, Misogyny, Muslim, Muslims, National, Nationalism, Outrage, Poems, Poetry, Power, Racism, Revolutionary, Sexism, sexual assault, Solidarity, State, Supreme Court, Surreal, Time, Voting, Women, Work, Xenophobia
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ELECTION POEM: Democracy Takes A Dive
Like that Mourning do After a cold night Looking over That nasty bluff When the populace says jump As if Only culpable Sane How high Falling for everything Accept gravity and physics As mirror opinion Reproving such an eminent nadir … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Choices, Democracy, Domination, Donald Trump, Dream, Dystopia, Exceptionalism, Fascism, Fear, Future, Hope, Hubris, Imperialism, Justice, Life, Mourning, Neoliberalism, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Solidarity
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