Tim Barrus Blog
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Bolivia, We Were In Bed Again
Excerpt: Going Rogue Bolivia We were in bed again. I was on my phone writing comments for the New York Times. Juanita wanted to know why I was typing on the phone and what was wrong with me. “You are always doing that. I don’t even know what the New…
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
Homo sapien has started a runaway process that signals extinction. Who is surprised that plastic is toxic. I am humiliated when I tell people that Appalachian opiate addiction is a side effect of unmitigated corporate greed versus the extent to which morality can be used as a yardstick of a…
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upstairs in our bed
what sort of old stone house is this with its memories of the old people playing cards downstairs while we pretended sleep the kind of sleep lost somewhere between the morning and the mystical, the musical, and the misbehaved
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SOME KIDS GO ROGUE BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Ezra Klein is right. He just doesn’t know how right he is. Now that he has a kid… Ezra is usually focused on public policy. I cannot focus on public policy because it is a humanitarian nightmare. It serves the rich. Who else. Ezra and his Ezra clones find it…
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When the Bars Close
the whole structure whose monotonous long sleeps thief your bike was on the front porch
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What Threesome
What’s a threesome.
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THE DAY WAS STRANGE
We did fish. Now and then. But it was about us. There was no us. It would never be allowed. The boat smelled hot with oak.
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NYT Readers Respond
TomPennsylvania3h ago @Tim Barrus I assume you substituted “Religion” for “Capitalism” in your ‘opium of the people’s paraphrasing of Marx. Marx’s quote is “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The Plot To Help America’s Children Responding To Readers: New York Times @Tom Yes. I took one thing and made it seem like another thing because it is. Capitalism is a religion. Not of sorts, but of ideology. I have been dirt poor my entire life. I find it almost…