Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus, New York Times: The Forest For The Trees
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http://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/donald-trump-john-brennan-security-clearance.html?comments#permid=28269358
There is no infrastructure to reign Trump in. All the hopeful people working so hard to protect democracy sadly cannot see the forest for the trees.
The forest gone. The trees cut down. And America is finished. It is too late to bring a corpse back.
Trump will rise…
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HITCHHIKERS
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i started hitchhiking
right around
the age of ten
and got hooked
on it until the day
arrived that
i bought my first
trail bike
about half the people
who picked me up
had weed
getting into that
car with the two
women was
an education
as was the beach…
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le sac à nouveau
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I live out of one bag. One bag.
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Witches Live Here
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Poery Is Dangersome Shit
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ChopShop
I bought my first bike from him. And then, I stayed 4 a week. He sold a lot of bikes, none of them legally. My new hog looked exactly like a hog I had looked at across town. I know what’s for sale and my ass was one of those…
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Poetic License
Poetic License
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Plotting Survival
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Any adolescent boy who has done sex work to survive can tell at least one horror story involving tricks. Some boys can tell a hundred of these stories. Being ripped off. Being assaulted. Being forced to commit acts the boy does not want to perform. Being blackmailed. Being threatened. Being…
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AIDS IS NOT OVER
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The Trump Regime has made it very clear to American evangelicals that it is going to end all funding to AIDS. Monies going to the Ryan White Act, a program that makes AIDS meds – antiretrovirals – accessible as these drugs can cost a hundred-thousand-dollars a year, will disappear as…
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THE WAR ON BOYS. TIM BARRUS, THE NEW YORK TIMES
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/opinion/feminists-misogyny-patriarchy.html?comments#permid=28008188
I work with adolescent boys. Jessica Valenti is right.
Boys are conflicted. Living in cultures that are themselves conflicted. This is not simply gender warfare, but it’s cultural warfare, too. Boys are both compelled and attracted. They are also threatened by a looming lack of privilege. What a self-created…
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Genocide
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
AIDS Clinics Cut-Back
Today, AIDS agencies are simply afraid that their funding will be cut back, and it will, the reality remains that people with HIV in the rural South cannot access HIV meds.
The structure we have is cruelly off limits to people in…