Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: No Immunity
It is becoming far, far more complicated to keep the immune-compromised individual alive. C. auris is beyond scary. But the CDC will save us. Right. I have always said that turning farming into a corporate paradigm would kill us because the profit motive would alter what we consider to be…
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Things That Glow in the Dark
Once you have seen this stoner vid, you have seen it all. All. All. All. -
The UN Rights of the Child R Ignored in the US
I hear You. But I do not possess the power to make it better. You are still considered a child, and as such, you are property. You will be touched by the medical community, and you will be stripped naked. That is how it is. That it makes you suicidal…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
David Brooks’ recent piece on poverty piece is hopeful. Easy for him to say. There is no hope for it. Let us go to the fundamental souls of Americans. Let us not dwell on why we are who we are. We simply are. Americans are mean and mean-spirited. They like…
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Video: Cajun and Dylan Reunited
You didn’t know this at the time, but the reason Dylan didn’t show is because he’s in jail. Society frowns on twelve-year-olds selling weed to other twelve-year-olds. Doing this on school property is just stupid and you can’t fix stupid. Some people will want to know if I worry about… -
Video: VaVoom
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Art by Smurf
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Midnight Playground
for quick cash there was always the midnight playground where the tricks would slowly emerge from their hiding places in the shadows and the trees the stars above you cannot be heard for the tigers and the local wolves -
Tim Barrus: New York Times
AIDS did not go away. There was no one to help. Or to listen. Caregivers. This was not going to be a vacation. This was not going to be just pop a little pill. Many people can pop that pill and they are fine. For some, the piggyback diseases are…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
The New York Times keeps publishing the cure for HIV is the cure for HIV when, in fact, such announcements are patently absurd and beneath contempt. Cure? I live in Appalachia. Our HIV clinics (public health) are all deliberately located in far away places we simply can’t get to. Even…