Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Ross Douthat on the American West. I gotta hand it to him. He goes right up to a thing, and presses his nose hard against the window. Ross wants more people in the West.
I want them to go away and take their reproductions with them. The West does not…
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Tim Barrus: What is Consent
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Minor children cannot consent because as minor children, they then become vulnerable, and they mainly do not comprehend what the consequences can be. This is where I usually come into it with my own experiences at being raped. I am really trying not to do that. It’s anecdotal. You cannot…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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It was one of those drag out daze of bike and rain and bouncing off fifty people who think this or that about this or that, about basically who said what to whom and where is this whom from. I think I went off on the NYT. In the writing…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Capitalism is ruthless. It will take your greed and stuff it down your own stupid throat. Its roots are in patriarchal hierarchy. Capitalism benefits mainly men. It is their hiding place.
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My Goal In Life Is To Get U2 Pose 4 Me.
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You probably should not have left me standing alone. I wanted to love you. But Karma’s a trick.
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Tim Barrus, New YorkTimes
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David Brooks was right in high school. Caste warfare is real.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Motel 6. Vegas.
Okay, so, I kinda do get life in a Vegas motel. How many first drafts do you want.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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To use the idea of “fun” as a weaponized guided cruise missle that hits the wrong wedding in Oman, I am here to tell you that “fun” has little to do with survival, and if you have survived the contemporary world, you have validated yourself in a terrain where validation…
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Tim Barrus: It All Depends Upon How Badly You Want It
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Held in bitterness by the razor teeth of the cold wind, you could smell the rain and the crows were shimmering blue.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I find it amazing that we insist on cultural realities such as ritual to validate the cosmic us and them. The senate itself resembles the reign of George the Third. Spiritual guide for the aristocracy. All the old, fat men, impotent, bitter, and confused. They’re like the Terminator. They just…