Tim Barrus Blog
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Electric Bike
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The electric bike is the only way to go. It makes no sound when you compare it to any carbon-burning bike. With a Hossack-style front end supporting a set of regular telescopic forks. The suspension is a confronting-looking jigger. It makes for a better ride.
This bike adds an extra…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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When it comes to reopening schools in the middle of a Covid pandemic, foster children walk a very fine line. It is very easy for them to lose their balance.
When we cover parenting, we forget about thousands when we leave foster parenting out of our focus.
Foster parents are…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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Every time we turn around to face whatever wind that is coming at us, we hear voices of a predestined fate, laughing at us in a cataclysm of deprivation and corruption. We hear the voices behind that wind, pushing it, always telling us – we don’t matter, we are irrelevant,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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I would join the violence in the streets. America has failed.
Call out the cops. America has still failed.
Call out the military. America has still failed.
Call out Homeland Security. America has still failed.
Call out Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. America has still failed.
Call out ICE. Call out…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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I home school my boys. Public school sees them as failures. This stigma covers them like sewage. It does not wash away.
Here’s what my boys can do.
Find kids lost in the mountain woods we live in.
Train dogs.
Train dogs to find kids lost in the mountain woods.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
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Adapt or die.
What happens in Sturgis will not stay in Sturgis. Ignorance, hubris, and intransigence exist in the soul of America. Our species is subject to the same biological constructs that exist in every single evolutionary paradigm of adapt or die.
It doesn’t matter if you want Johnny and…
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I Couldn’t Possibly Tell All These Stories
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When you’re caught up in the life – and living it – time becomes a salient animal not unlike the way a cheetah walks, seductively but dangerous. I wanted to love you but karma’s a trip.
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Free Shirt From Good Will Grab Bag
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No Boundaries
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Some people and their shit and their stuff and their kids and their plastic kiddie pool and their old trucks ain’t going nowhere but is being eaten by the rust brambles, are fucking everywhere because they have no boundaries whatsoever.
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Death In School
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