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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: Owner Us
- POEM: In Summer-y
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Tag Archives: Poor
FREE POSTER: Sen. Rob “Robber” Portman – Reverse Robin Hood
This free political poster features Sen. Rob “Robber” Portman (R-OH) as Reverse Robin Hood, stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. This free poster is yet another in my “Parity or Parody in Democracy” series. This poster was … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Democracy, free poster, Greed, Health Care, History, Income, Inequality, Modern, Parity or Parody, Political, Poor, Republican, Rich, Time, Wealth
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FREE POSTER: Senator Rob Portman as The High Priest Caiaphas, Starring In That Christian Damn Nation
This free poster takes Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) to church over his brutally un-Christian vacillation over the senate Republican health care bill. This satirical poster is yet another installation in my “Parity or parody in democracy” series. Wile Sen. Portman … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Christian, Church, Democracy, free poster, Health Care, Jesus, Logic, Medicaid, Parity or Parody, Poor, Republican, Rich, Sen. Rob Portman
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POSTER: Partisan Man – Senator Rob Portman – Mitch McConnell Made Me Do It!
This free poster is another installment in my “Parity or Parody in Democracy” series. This poster features Sen. Rob Portman as Partisan Man, yet another white man. This political cartoon was inspired by Sen. Portman, white man among white men, … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cartoon, Democracy, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Health Care, Parity or Parody, Partisan, Partisanship, Political, Politics, Poor, President, Reconciliation, Republican, Sen. Rob Portman, Time
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Pushing Buttons of Intellectual Property
I occasionally run across my graphics on the web, swiped without permission; sometimes even on products for sale. I have yet to take much action, let alone sue anybody, regarding any such nominally illegal use. Most of this is because … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Peace
Tagged Business, Busyness, Change, Children, Common Good, Environment, government, Graphics, Heart, Illegal, Image, Intellectual Property, Job, Mind, Money, Poor, Poverty, Pride, Privatizing, Reality, Rich, Soul, Time, Toledo, Top Pun, Trust, Virtual Reality, War, Work
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ACTIVIST POEM: Our Ayes Will Have It
She had Enough Of half-baked politicians She kneaded democracy Here and now As the yeast she could do Sounding off To those who might Listen Wee choir not A grand stand To lift every voice and sing Wringing well The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Blessed, Change, Death, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Faith, Fear, God, Greed, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Minorities, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Present, Privilege, Reactionary, Work
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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
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
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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POEM: Standing On My Privy Ledge
I am a white, straight, Christian, male And you see that I am afraid Though paying attention To what is fare I am more afraid Of whites than blacks Of straights than queers Of Christians than Muslims Of men than … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Christian, Discrimination, Economic, Equality, Feminism, Haiti, Hate, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Intersectionality, Justice, LGBT, Life, Mennonite, Muslims, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Prison, Privilege, Public Health, Queer, Reality, Rich, Social Justice, Solidarity, Values, Vocation, Women
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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
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POEM: Naught For Prophet Fun Razing
In the crucible Of the well-heeled And the, well, heeled He surrounded himself With corporate persons Naught for prophet organizations Possessed buy a cutting edge currency paper thin The filing and folding kind Their foundational hope Nay only hope To … Continue reading
FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Incremental Change, Heads Up!
This free political poster posits that the conventional wisdom of incremental change can be lethal to paradigm shifts needed for humanity to evolve to the next level. Devotees of incremental change may view death by degrees as safer, or at least … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Ballot, Change, Chaos, Compromise, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Democracy, Donald Trump, Evil, Evolution, Experience, Fear, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, God, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, Injustice, Liberation Theology, Life, Love, Paradigm Shift, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Preferential Option for the Poor, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Status, Status Quo, Sustainable, Theology, Top Pun, Truth, Values, Voting, War, Wisdom
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POEM: Technicolored Jesus
Is it time for one of those Come to Jesus moments Wear there is skin in the game Beyond black and white Word And what surrounds Words Becoming flesh Another flood In a see of Red between the lyin’s More … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Blessed, Christianity, Doctrine, Enlightenment, Hell, Holy, Humanity, Jesus, Nonviolence, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Present, Racism, Religion, skin in the game, Slavery, Soul, Time, Violence
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POEM: Awe Due Consideration
What is good A bout religion At best There is little to say Giving a fare hearing More about listening Too small Still voices Respecting only what due Saving A few choice words For those empower Occupying humanity Only in … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Chaos, Consciousness, Economy, Experience, Gandhi, Gift, God, Hell, Humanity, Irreverence, Life, Moral, Muse, Physics, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Quotes, Reality, Religion, Scarcity, Science, Silence, Truth, Universe
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POEM: Flowing Inevitably Threw Us
Our hearts were broke A cache sow, well, spent In solvent In life Long Yearnings Teaming tsunamis of solidarity Of the largesse kind Poor Over us Torn as under A heavy wait Pre-seeding A compelling yield As if Some bank … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Compassion, Dreams, Experience, Generosity, Grace, Heart, Holy, Injustice, Kindness, Life, Love, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Romantic, Serendipity, Solidarity
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POEM: Peppered With Violence
Bland and tasteless souls Often pepper with violence The salt of the earth Writing a vicious cycle In rehashed seasonings Winners of discontent The Fall’s harvest Yet even sow Hope springing eternal And summers of love As have know choice … Continue reading
POEM: Sea of Love
I was lost In a sea of love Only to find my way back To this world Look in my eyes and sea All that I have For you Love is a vast place; one of those places where you … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Conventional Wisdom, Experience, God, Joy, Love, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Prose, Respect, Short Poems, Silence, Soul, Wisdom
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POEM: A Mega Something — Owed To Megabus
We waited Quiet A long time For what would be ours For what would pass As high noon Breaking the news As poor As the bussed itself Loitering in the company we keep A mega something But not a bus … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Poems
Tagged Money, Ode, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poor, Privilege, Short Poems, Time
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