Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with New-York-Times
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GATEKEEPERS ALWAYS WIN
This will not be published. I used the word bulldozer. I submitted this as an example of how the New York Times demands compliance. If the gatekeepers think those of us who deplore the New York Times just disappear into the mist, the gatekeepers are crazier than I thought they…
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Scratching Glass
I do not remember writing this. But some kind soul sent it to me to remind me what an idiot I am. But some of it does hit home. It was published in the New York Times 2009. Shame on me. Back in the States, under my desk, packed in…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
There are few male voices inside the mainly female sections at the New York Times which are assigned as Family, Family Values, Raising Children in a Religion, Raising Children Without a Religion, Day Care, Trauma at Day Care, Trauma at the New York Times, Rape Makes Guys Nervous Who Should…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Why I Quit High School I didn’t quit, I just didn’t go much. To high school. I was in a special program where I was literally let loose. Do I Say: I have Asperger’s. Or do I say, I am Asperger’s. All my voices are Asperger’s, too. It’s all so…
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Tim Barrus, Publishing and Me
I just sent this to a literary agency. Because I love publishing. Actually, I love books. I owe you an apology. I’m on Facebook, but I never see it. I don’t want to see it. So I saw this agency on Twitter. Apparently on Facebook, if you hit return the…
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New Womb
Care For the Dying I am a communist. Your culture’s systems of denying the idea of death are a pornography, just like your society is. That will get me kicked off the NYT for being uncivil. Again. If you have strong, considered opinions about anything whatsoever, let alone, death, you…
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Butt Naked On a Bench
Tim Barrus, New York Times I am a communist. Democrats depend on luck. Republicans depend on hatred. Sometimes the bear gets you. You, America. You are powerless to keep your own children alive because you are hypnotized by all your stuff. Do not sink this boat. Why. Not. It was…
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
I am a communist. In a world that condemns mostly accurate thumping of male chests, that communism was wrong. It was wrong. It cannot be turned around anymore. It’s for losers. I am a loser. Whose disappointment that anything can change, is the solid ground of If Only. If only…
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I Am A Communist
I am a communist. I get poverty. There is just no way that our capitalist abyss rock bottom hole we have dug into the ground as our reality, is going to save us from the cowboy paradigm that has evolved, particularly in terms of how it defines the sacredness of…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/world/global-population-shrinking.html#commentsContainer&permid=112969066:112969066 ARE WE INSANE Even if birth rates continue to slide, will it be enough to meet the challenges of climate change. No. There will still be too many people on the planet. Enough people will still be here for climate change to accelerate to the point where death can…
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On My Bike: Oceanside 2 Seattle
New York Times If I said to my kid: You are getting vaccinated, go get on the bike, my kid would go get on the bike. If I said: You will be volunteering this week at the food bank, my kid would be at the food bank. I do not…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times keeps trying to cover – the NEW education. How do we change what gets delivered to children has to be delivered to children. Now, let us go to special education. No one wants to talk about special ed as it is juxtaposed with typical children being…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Often, New York Times writers do not want to know too much because knowing too much is always trouble. It can seem like the writer has a preference within the context of one side to an issue or another. This is because the anecdotal is so pissed on. It can…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I’m poor. I belong to a caste. I’m poor. I belong to a class. I’m poor. I belong to racial stereotypes although I have yet to hand over my genetic information. I’m poor. Title 2 of the Genetic Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) supposedly protects individuals against discrimination on the basis of…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Today, HIV gets a tiny mention in the New York Times. In an article about sexually transmitted diseases. One word at the end of the piece. This, too, marginalizes. We are ashamed. We hang our heads. We did it to ourselves. Normals refuse to see HIV as a sexually transmitted…
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We Will Fight Back
Mainstream America assumes intimidation with deer rifles at electoral locations is accomplished by right wing radicals. Fat old white men with guns. These guys are not radical. They cling to righteous notions that their world is democracy. It’s actually facism they love. We are the left wing radicals, and I…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Choose life? Leave Roe alone. What kind of life would that be. That life someone else is forced to have to live because the loudest among us say so. We never talk about the person whose poverty will define them, and they are happily here because the loudest among us…
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Necromancer
In Going Rogue, I’m writing some about how as a writer, comments are the only thing I am allowed to touch. It’s the comments that facilitate such publications as the New York Times to become more than a publication, but now we dabble in social media platform. Because those of…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The filibuster is ephemeral. The South and the filibuster are antiquities. The South could go back to the cotton gin. Voting rights stand as perversion to the South. The filibuster and the Southabuster share many things. Like contempt. Why the democrats would keep around a bunch of rules designed 25…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I grab nostalgia in a death grip. I slam it in my writing. I have no choice. When I’m not writing, I go mad. When I am not involved with photography, I go mad. When I don’t have either one, I shut down. I rock. I become catatonic. Nostalgia is…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
NOW, YOU KNOW You did not know until he came over — you hadn’t seen him in months — that it had been all about his tits. You did not know you could still ejaculate. Now, you know. No one ever leaves, and returns, to find the place you left.…
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In Your Mouth: Tim Barrus, New York Times
She puts it in his mouth. He puts it in her mouth. The proverbial wedding cake is a symbolism that goes back to the discovery of fire. There is nothing more profane than a wedding cake or a wedding. I don’t go to weddings. I might vomit. I do not…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Parenting on a good day can be deranged. Parenting on a bad day is also deranged. Parenting in an emergency and the failure of infrastructure is called rock and role. $1.39 per meal per kid on Snap. A complete failure. The number of hungry American children has doubled. The failure…
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TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES
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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NYT Readers Respond
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.”…