Tim Barrus Blog
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
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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
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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
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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
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the whole structure
whose monotonous
long sleeps thief
your bike was on
the front porch
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What Threesome
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What’s a threesome.
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THE DAY WAS STRANGE
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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
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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
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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…
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Capitalism Is Killing our Children
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Tim Barrus, The New York Times
Tim Barrus | North Carolina
Politicians say we’re lazy. They fervently believe we are out to impoverish them, rob them, grab their wealth and run. There is no Robinhood who is going to save us. No merry men. No Friar Tuck. But there is…