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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: Risk
POEM: Their Undoing
They control the levers Of a vast machinery Of business, politics, education They know no equals Fusing work and ploy Blind to their match Game and set Unable even to follow their own ruse Our future Remains Incalculable Though we … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Business, Change, Choices, Control, Courage, Culture, Education, Evil, Freedom, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Hypocrisy, Hypocritical, Lazy, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Powers that be, Present, Reality, Risk, Rules, Self-Awareness, Selfish, Short Poems, State, Status, Status Quo, Stupid, Sustainable, Time, Work
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POEM: Each Day a Work of Heart
For every won of us Each day Is a work of heart Canvassing inexhaustible possibilities Of epic themes Momentary epiphanies And daily grooves Imploring colors Exploring textures Mating with perfect light Not mirrorly framed Buy the ornate Or threw making … Continue reading
POEM: Forgiving Justice
Forgiveness can no more refute The demands of justice And its claim reguarding the lost Than justice can outflank The necessity of forgiveness To open the door for peace A heart rendering choice The difference being Securing one’s house Or … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Awareness, Experience, Fear, Forgiveness, Gandhi, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Injustice, John Lennon, Justice, Life, Loss, Love, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Present, Questions, Reality, Respect, Risk, Sacred, Short Poems
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POEM: My Indian Name
After my vision quest My shaman told me From now on My Indian name would be “Rhymes with orange” Only having never Seen an orange This short poem can be viewed as one of my more whimsical poems, or perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Funny Poems, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Experience, Job, Meaning, Perspective, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Prayer, Reality, Rhyme, Risk, Short Poems, Time, Universe, Whimsical
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POEM: Ounce of Prevention
An ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure Unfortunately, stuff is sold By the pound and dollar Virtually everyone knows that prevention is preferable to cure. As Ben Franklin put it, “A stitch in time saves nine.” Much … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Creativity, Culture, Death, Labor, Life, Lifestyle, Meaning, Modern, Monetize, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Prevention, Progress, Risk, Short Poems, Sleep, Time, Western Civilization
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POEM: Walling Yourself In
I am reason Number 921 For building a wall Between you and me Overly ecstatic Seemingly erratic You think that you are keeping me out But you are just walling yourself in Weather a fence Or a prison Your own … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anarchism, Freedom, Irony, Meaning, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Risk, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Lottery
I won the lottery Now I am able To outsource My neuroses Winning the lottery is probably one of the most common fantasies, particularly by the math-impaired. Most people assume that getting a large windfall of money will make their life … Continue reading
POEM: Escaping Hubris
Indigency is the quickest road Out of hubris Few of us can afford Its high price Hubris, or arrogance, is powerfully seductive in the human mind. This excessive self-confidence seems to be an inescapable part of egocentricity. Nonetheless, as humans … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Attitude, Choices, Compassion, Control, Cruelty, Empathy, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Mind, Modern, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Psychology, Reality, Risk, Short Poems, Spiritual, State, Trust, Universe, Vulnerability, Wealth
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Terminal Terminology: Redefining CANCER
A recent news story about redefining cancer raises the issue of how powerful something becomes depending on what we call it. In this case, I call it “terminal terminology.” Cancer diagnosis and treatment is literally a growth industry. About half … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Experience, Fear, Health Care, Hope, Life, Pyschology, Radical, Risk, Technology
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POEM: Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game The gods are at war A blood sport for many The spectators are plenty Seeded at the rite and Overlooking the arena As bleachers whitewash The stain power of the players Announcers pooring over each play … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action
Tagged Accountability, Art, Awe, Courage, God, Inane, Optimism, Play, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Poor, Power, Risk, Sacrifice, skin in the game, Social Justice, Social Movements, Violence, War, Worship
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice
Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM). It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
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POEM: Chrysalis of Security
I shed my chrysalis of security Arising as a butterfly Only then realizing I was not the worm That I appeared I am struck by how the quest for security can easily become a prison. Whether the quest for security … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Compromise, Life, Money, Moral, Poems, Poetry, Prison, Rationalization, Risk, Security, Short Poems, Zero Risk
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Occupy Wall Street Buttons
I am finally uploaded a new batch of Occupy Wall Street designs. This batch of 125 political designs is mostly Occupy Wall Street designs, but there are also a large series of “stop socialism” designs, a large series of Fox … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News
Tagged Advertising, African American, America, Anarchism, Big Brother, Business, Buttons-Pins, Capitalism, Change, Chaos, Class Warfare, Community, Compassion, Congress, Constitution, Consumption, cool design, Corporate Personhood, Corruption, Crime, Death, Death Penalty, Debt, Democracy, Democrat, Dream, Dreams, Economy, Education, Elections, Environmental, Evolution, Facts, First Amendment, Food, Fox News, Free Speech, Freedom, Freedom of the Press, Funny, Future, Gandhi, God, GOP, government, Greed, Heart, Hell, Human Race, Illegal, Jesus, Jobs, Liberal, Life, Love, Medicare, Military, Mind, Money, National, Normal, Nuclear Power, Occupy Wall Street, Parodies, Police, Political, Politics, Pollution, Poor, Postal Service, Poverty, Power, Protesters, Questions, Reality, Religion, Republican, Responsibility, Revolution, Rich, Risk, Security, Silence, Slavery, Social Security, Socialism, State, Success, taxes, Tea Party, Time, Titanic, Top Pun, Trust, Truth, Vegetarianism, Violence, Wall Street, Wall Street Bull, War, Welfare, Work, Xenophobia
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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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Violence Protects the State
Stephanie N. Van Hook, Executive Director of Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, California, has written a commentary in Znet on How Violence Protects the State. Here is an excerpt: “Violence in opposition to the State relieves the State and … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Change, Culture, government, Harmony, History, Humanity, Injustice, Life, Logic, Love, Modern, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Power, Propaganda, Protesters, Rage, Respect, Risk, State, Unity, Violence
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Birth Control as a Human Right – Toledo Protest
On Friday, February 6, about a dozen protesters gathered outside St. Anne’s Hospital on Secor Road in Toledo, Ohio. This protest was organized by the Toledo Chapter of the National Organization for Women (see Toledo NOW facebook page), it also … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Birth Control, Catholic, Christian, Christianity, Church, Conflict, Conscience, Control, Conventional Wisdom, Creation, Doctrine, Events, facebook, Freedom, God, Health Insurance, Hospitality, Human Rights, Idolatry, Ironic, Life, Mystical, National, Nationalism, Obama, Occupy Toledo, Political, President, Protesters, Protests, Radical, Reality, Religion, Religious, Religious Freedom, Respect, Risk, Sacred, Sacrifice, Security, skin in the game, Society, Soul, State, Stewardship, Time, Toledo, Values, Willingness, Wisdom, Women, Work
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Maybe There’s a Reason It’s Straight to Hell Not Gay to Hell
Maybe There’s a Reason It’s Straight to Hell Not Gay to Hell FUNNY BUTTON Maybe There’s a Reason It’s Straight to Hell Not Gay to Hell FUNNY BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Peace, Top Pun Design Commentaries
Tagged Ancient, Anti-Homophobia, Balance, Bigotry, Buttons-Pins, Colloquial, Control, Conventional Wisdom, cool design, Evil, Experience, Fear, Funny, God, Happiness, Healing, Hell, Homophobia, Irony, Joy, LGBT, Life, Meaning, Moral, Morality, Musings, Mystical, Nature, Parodies, Philosophical, Piety, Play, Probability, Queer, Quotes, Radical, Reality, Religion, Religious, Respect, Responsibility, Risk, Sex, Sexuality, Society, Time, Top Pun, Wisdom
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Risk Taking in War and Peace
PEACE QUOTE: Risks Making War Risks to Secure Peace–PEACE SIGN BUTTON PEACE QUOTE: Risks Making War Risks to Secure Peace–PEACE SIGN BUTTON This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, … Continue reading →