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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: Technology
POEM: Winning The Stockholm Sin-drome
This is another in my series of poems on artificial intelligence. I suspect that the “wow factor” of some early AI uses will serve as a sucker punch for a largely bloodless beating. While I am skeptical of many AI … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged artificial intelligence, Competition, Crazy, Death, Environment, Fear, Humanity, Learning, Love, Money, Moral, Poems, Poor, Society, Sustainable, Technology, Work, Worship
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POEM: Iraq and a Hard Place
This poem tells a story — a story of patriotic fervor in slaughtering America’s foes. This story was told to me by a retired Grumman engineer, a literal rocket scientist and career military-industrialist. His story was prefaced by a glorious … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Awe, Bullshit, Defense, Evil, Farce, Hell, Humanity, Irony, Job, Media, Mercy, Military, Money, Necessary Evil, Patriotism, Technology, War
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Benefits of Immunizations – Just for the Health of It radio show
Below is the script for my public health radio show on immunizations. You can listen to the half-hour immunization show here. You can listen to the most current and all previous shows at the archive for Just for the Health of … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News
Tagged African American, America, Awareness, Children, Conspiracy, Control, Death, Disease, Economic, Family, Fear, Food, Health Care, History, Just for the Health of It, Life, Military, National, Perspective, Play, Power, Present, President, Prevention, Public Health, Religious, Risk, Science, Society, State, Suffering, Technology, Time, WAKT, Women, Work
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POEM: Left To His Own Devices
Left to his own Devices He was apped to cynicism And awe of the most virtual of realities Things looking up People looking down This poem touches upon one of my pet peeves: electronic devices preempting direct human contact and … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Cynicism, Poems, Poetry, Short Poems, Technology
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POEM: Nevermore Contrived
In the distant future But not too distant Man fashions A machine That does every thing For us For the trees Imperceptible To awe but sum Living in passed tense Eternal re-pose Holding sway In make believe lives And unexamined … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Busyness, Celebrity, Coercion, Courage, Dream, Dreams, Future, Heart, Hope, Identity, Intimacy, Life, Market, Play, Power, Reality, Religion, Sacrifice, Security, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Technology, Trust, Truth, Wisdom
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POEM: Albatross Necklace Futures
I stared at the world I could have built Had I Grasped more Farce fully A stock pile Awe but reaching Heaven Falling short Of mature stature Leaving behind Child’s play The ripe now And not trading in Futures Of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Ancient, Awe, Bible, Blessed, Choices, Christian, Christianity, Compassion, Courage, Evil, Faith, Farce, Future, God, Heaven, Hubris, Humanity, Ideology, Idolatry, Image, Irony, Islam, Life, Love, Modern, Moral, Morality, Nature, People of The Book, Play, Poems, Poetry, Present, Rationalization, Reality, Relationships, Religious, Respect, Responsibility, Sacred, Science, Society, Spiritual, Status, Technology, Time, Trust, Truth, Values, Vanity, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worldview, Worship
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POEM: A Befitting Size, That Matters
Starring on the big screen Used to dominate young dreams Super-sizing them for mass consumption Today, celluloid immortality miniaturizes So five minutes ago Small screens test us As we flail miserably In a feudal limbo ‘Tween Puffed up images Flickering … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Balance, Celebrity, Consumption, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Efficiency, Elite, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Humility, Image, Impersonal, Institutions, Media, Mind, Mourning, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Present, Reality, Relationships, Status, Technology, Temptation, Time, Wealth, Western Civilization, Worship
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POEM: Destiny Mending
Weave had to live In the shadow Of our looming Self-destruction It’s time To take A strand Enough All ready As we hit the concrete Beyond erudite Threads on facebook Virtually no matter How tightly woven Betwixt loose yarns spun … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Apocalypse, Awe, Change, Consumerism, Democracy, Denial, facebook, Fear, Hope, Humanity, Job, Jobs, Lazy, Life, Lifestyle, Money, mother nature, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Reality, Soul, Technology, Time, War, Wisdom, Work, zombie
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POEM: Twittering Away – Owed to IPO’d
This poem is in tribute to today’s initial public offering of Twitter: Twittering Away – Owed to IPO’d Is there a longing beyond The public stocks IPO’d Buy and buy The Alpha and Beta of existence Reduced to 140 characters … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Dreams, Fear, Humanity, Inane, Irony, Life, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Prose, Reality, Society, Technology, Virtual Reality
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POEM: Civilization
Dogs pee to mark their territory Humans build walls This is called civilization There are up sides and down sides to civilization. Western civilization shares at least one thing in common with canines: they both demarcate their territory by the … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Awareness, Balance, Control, Culture, Environment, Evolution, Extinction, Harmony, Human Nature, Human Race, Humanity, Life, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reality, Recycling, Short Poems, Technology, Temptation, War, Western Civilization, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Ad Dulled State
Ad Dulled State Well come To this ad dulled state What will it take To see the light Tell a vision Divining every yen Razing the whys Jacking up All that meters Taxi’ing every quarter our Static being drug Swallowing … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Capitalism, Commercial, Consumerism, Consumption, Culture, Dehumanizing, Dream, Dreams, Food, Freedom, Life, Mind, Poems, Poetry, Pop Culture, Power, Rage, State, Status, Technology, Titanic, Truth, Virtue
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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: Being Human Takes Time
Being human takes time Sometimes going in slow motion Gets you there faster Neither switching channels Nor reading the last chapter first Helps the race Turn off the technology of the moment And turn on to your own life story … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Human Race, Humanity, Life, Poems, Poetry, Rat Race, Short Poems, Technology, Time
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POEM: In God We Trust? Money Speaks!
In God we trust? A graven image We never leave home without Good For all debts, public and private When miss taking goods for good The most note worthy tender legal By George, Abe, Alex, Andy, Ulysses, and Ben Close … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Bible, Capitalism, Christian, Christianity, Class Warfare, Corporate Personhood, Cynical, Dehumanizing, Democracy, Free Speech, God, Hate, Idolatry, Image, Impersonal, Ironic, Irony, Jesus, Love, Modern, Money, Play, Poor, Propaganda, Religion, Rich, State, Supreme Court, Surreal, Technology, Trust, Wall Street, Worship
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POLITICAL CARTOON: General Jesus – Blessed Are Those Who Kill People Who Kill People
General Jesus Speaks! Welcome to Gen. Jesus! This is the third installment a new Top Pun series of comics that will run on Sundays, featuring CEO Jesus, Free Market Jesus, Country Club Jesus, General Jesus, Comedian Jesus, and who knows … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Political Cartoons
Tagged Awe, Bible, Blessed, Cartoon, Comics, Control, Domination, drone, Existential, Fear, Free market, God, Humor, Imperialism, Impersonal, Jesus, Job, Jobs, leadership, Life, Love, Market, Militarism, Mock, Modern, Moral, Nature, Pacifism, Parodies, Political, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Religion, Rich, Solidarity, State, Technology, Top Pun, Trust, Voting, War
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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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