Tim Barrus Blog
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Time and Gravity
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TIME
Response to Ezra Kein Ezra Klein’s observation that as far as government was concerned, the adults were eating at the kids’ table. I fell to the floor laughing. What does it mean. It means you can extrapolate physics from the physics of politics. They are not the same. They are…
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Child Starvation: SNAP
Poor children on the federal SNAP program (food stamps) are allowed $1.39 per meal. The average loaf of bread clocks in at $3.31. The cost of food in America moves around, it’s juxtaposed between what the market will bear, and a bear that would eat your bones alive.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I’m poor. I belong to a caste. I’m poor. I belong to a class. I’m poor. I belong to racial stereotypes although I have yet to hand over my genetic information. I’m poor. Title 2 of the Genetic Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) supposedly protects individuals against discrimination on the basis of…
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At What Point Does Language Become More Salient Than An Image
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Lurkers Looking For Dirt
I have names but I do not know who these people are. Watching me. Waiting. Waiting for what, I have no idea. You cannot control whatever face the lurkers who think they know you – these people often believe we were in intimate relationships – and they will paint your…
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GoingRogue
I cannot believe this tank still works. The odometer has flipped twice. All night on the beach in Jenner. We spray painted the van white. I think we were stoned and did most of it in the dark.
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Going Rogue
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Going Rogue
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with the lives of others