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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: Resistance
POEM: If Only a Poem
I see art as an important part of resistance to evil which can be so unpoetic. Of course, a poem is mirrorly a representation of a struggle for a better world; more is required. May our resistance and struggle be … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Beauty, Evil, Resistance
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POEM: Whether Proof Hope
This poem is another meditation on hope, timeless and timely. Hope seems to have a life of its own, and seams intent to share that life. Sew spread the knews. Whether Proof Hope Hope is its own kind Of fuelishness … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Hope, Life, Meditation, Money, Questioning, Rage, Resistance
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POEM: The World and Change
This is a poem of hope and resistance. I find it easy to ponder all of the scary challenges the world offers. I sometimes need to remind myself that a deep understanding of how the world doesn’t work also comes … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Change, Honesty, Hope, Resistance, Silence, Work
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POEM: That Clarity Amidst Blood
That Clarity Amidst Blood The tides of change are rising From a tsunami of tears The salt of the earth Uniting with water The solution that is life That clarity amidst blood And where souls hit the street Awash with … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Authenticity, Balance, Change, Community, Courage, Cowardice, Democracy, Dream, Enemies, Greed, Healing, Hypocrisy, Injustice, Justice, Life, Loss, Money, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Rage, Resistance, Revolution, Selfish, skin in the game, Solidarity, Status, Unity, Vanity
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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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Activist POEM: Yet Another Trump Tuesday at Sen. Portman’s Office
Yet Another Trump Tuesday at Sen. Portman’s Office Empower verses In power What is won to think? Lying in wait Miring our advocacy Swamped with democracy When and how to mete US We go through the drill Lairs of representation … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Democracy, Donald Trump, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, President, Protesters, Rage, Republican, Resistance, Sen. Rob Portman, Silence, Time, Toledo
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Free Political Poster: BULLY TRUMP – Trump Toadies Celebrate Latest Victory – MOST Lunch Money Collected By Any President EVER – Trump and Toadies Spotted Increasingly Out To Lunch
Trump is a bully. Trump’s bullying may be his most signature style — MOST signature style EVER! Trump’s chronic bullying is particularly surreal in the context of alleged peacemaking. Even the notion of Trump being mentioned for a possible Nobel … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Free Stuff, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Absurdity, Apocalypse, Change, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Heart, History, Iran, Life, Military, Modern, Money, nobel peace prize, North Korea, Ode, Parodies, Political, President, Religion, Resistance, Rich, Satire, Surreal, Violence, War
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Free Anti-GUN VIOLENCE POSTER -Trump – I’m willing to support killer gun laws; trust me, most killer ever
I expect that Prez Donald Trump will come out as a powerful supporter of the status quo regarding gun violence prevention laws, or more accurately, the lack of gun violence prevention laws. What can we expect: more and more prayers … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Anti-Gun, Authority, Donald Trump, Jesus, Life, Moral, Prayer, Prevention, Resistance, Right-Wing, Status, Status Quo, Top Pun, Trust, Violence
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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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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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Free ANTI-TrumpCare Posters
Here are three anti-TrumpCare posters to share or download and print. Hopefully, with massive resistance to Republican health care proposals, we can prevent the loss of health care to millions of sick Americans and a massive transfer of health care … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, Political Action
Tagged Donald Trump, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Health Care, Health Insurance, Loss, Republican, Resistance, Rich
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POLITICAL POEM: Trump U Verses Screw U
O pose The establishment Of his style Outside is in Down with up As drive in reveres “I love sow and sow more than anyone” And awe That is Con men Selling Brooklyn bridges To no where That is good … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Business, Change, Chaos, Creativity, Democracy, Donald Trump, government, Hope, Humanity, Labor, Love, Moral, Nationalism, Oligarchy, Partisan, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Privilege, Resistance, Rich, Security, Society, Solidarity, Unity, Women, Xenophobia
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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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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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PROTEST POEM: Round The Public Square
Theirs Smoked filled plays Behind closed doors Where there is no room In the halls of power Fore the wrest of us Relegated to copping democracy Round the public square This protest poem deals with the reality that lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Citizens, Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice System, Democracy, First Amendment, government, Justice, Law, Law Enforcement, Meaning, Nonviolent, Play, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Protesters, Protests, Reality, Resistance, Top Pun
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POEM: Reject
They took out a social contract On her In what might as well be Too her Too be As good As dead From their point of you Her response sow questionable If it’s awe the same Too you I’ll strike … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Camus, Character, Courage, Dehumanizing, Evolution, Humanity, Idioms, leadership, Learning, Love, Poems, Poetry, Political, Prose, Rage, Rebellion, Resistance, Revolution, Rules, Society, Status, Status Quo
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Anti-Trump, Anti-Hillary FREE POSTER: Newsflash — Stockholm Syndrome Renamed Washington Syndrome, Voters Held Hostage
This free Anti-Trump, Anti-Hillary poster announces the sad, traumatic news: NEWSFLASH — Stockholm Syndrome Renamed Washington Syndrome. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the presidential candidates with the highest negative ratings in modern U.S. history. Voters are held hostage in an … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, anti-Trump, Compromise, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economic, Empathy, Envy, Evolution, free poster, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, History, Human Rights, Jill Stein, Kindness, Modern, Political, Politics, President, Progress, Rationalization, Resistance, Revolution, Risk, Time, Top Pun, Values, Voters
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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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