Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with New-York-Times
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
“False and misleading statements.” That cotton candy phrase again. The entire Trump narrative is a LIE. The lies just keep coming. But we weaken their power, especially with the use of the term: misleading. As if this slip of the tongue takes us by accident down the Trump rabbit hole.…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
How it is that time after time capitalism totally fails us. We become desperate to find ways to prop it up. We fix the car with binder twine. We fall upon our swords of theory. We reinforce conformity and never structure. We tweak it here and there. We shower a…
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TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES
Industrial consumption is a sadness all over the wrecked planet we live on. The wholesale slaughter of animals is ubiquitous to our predatory species, and eating animals is immoral, unethical, unnecessary, and a symbolic reminder that the systems we have built, like industrial farming, that prop our culture up with…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
The Kind Of Cultures We Need Versus The KindOf Cultures We do Not Need. Like The One We Are Living In. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/coronavirus-us-cities-inequality.html#commentsContainer&permid=106986749:106986749 How detention for children inside the foster care monster machine (they are all monster machines designed to pubish children) became foster care is beyond my limited imagination. But…
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Tim Barrus In the New York Times
TRUMP IS THE MEDIA’S FETISH Never mind the mask. It is simply accoutrement. I want to imply the word fetish. Trump is the media’s fetish. The media’s fetish for covering Trump is not simply covering Trump. It is covering lies with the excuse that lies are news. Lies are not…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
If I got anything from scouts, it was rape, abuse, and a gnawing fear that still eats me inside out. Americans believe you can get over it, especially via time. That is simply not true. I am very difficult. I am not compliant. About anything. I see his face. It…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: The Rich Speak
Mainstream publishing is like a cat with one life. The New York Times interviews Tina Brown. This is like the pot speaks to the kettle. Tina Brown is orthodox print publishing. Her digital experiments were flirtations. She doesn’t want to be a player in the one-cat, one-life feline in a…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
It is difficult to stomach the victorious, scorched-earth Trump has left us with. We are breathlessly irrelevant. Still in shock from 2016. Shock, too, is irrelevant. It is more than shocking to hear a Republican call for unity. Where is the evidence that Republicans are even slightly, actually seeking unity.…
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Traveling to Golgotha
Just traveling. As I write this, if you haven’t written on an iPhone, you haven’t lived, we’re barreling through West Virginia. West Virginia kinda creeps me out. The New York Times has published a piece on adolescent male relationships. Set against the context of what they call: the sleepover. You…
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Hunger in Appalachia: Tim Barrus: New York Times
Inspirational films tell us to climb every mountain. Try climbing legislative mountains that would bring food to Appalachia. I live in Appalachia. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics recognizes this part of the country, and southern Ohio as — Appalachia — and lists it as distressed. Terminology code for the…
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Genetic Mutation in HIV: Tim Barrus in the New York Times
I’m with anything that will take out HIV. That particular species should be burned crisper than toast, slashed, nuked, bombed, extinguished, executed, shot by drones, mutated out of existence, and squashed. I’m with eradication. But what about the rogue nation that keeps the virus around. Like us. But what about…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: Voyeurism
Voyeurism Does Not Mean Exhibitionism My students have HIV. Being tracked to an HIV clinic – repeatedly – draws inferences that are damaging in terms of enormous stigma. People infected are easily tracked by a government eager to know everything. Including who their friends are and where those friends live.…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
AIDS in Appalachia I live in the Blue Ridge in Appalachia where health care is a nightmare. Public Health has waiting lists which means you cannot get an appointment for seven to eight months. Public Health throws you around like you are just a carcass of meat. They sexually exploit…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: Civil War 2
Trump has also threatened civil war. I assume this would not be a war between the states. More like a a race war, an age war, an economic war, and cages would not be just for children. If you think public executions could never happen here, please update your perception…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times: American Family
What both liberalism and conservatism prop up is mythology. In reality, the American family is a vile, repulsive, and depraved institution whose significance is about power, and has nothing to do with bonding. I do not mean to be uncivil. This is simply what I think, what I have seen,…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
I work with adolescent boys at-risk. Many have HIV. They are frequently referred to as – the Hard to Reach. A term that carries stigma like a tsunami. I tweet like crazy. Usually about them and me. Relationships matter. AIDS is not over. I want you to know that HIV…
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Open Letter to Patricia Cohen, Economist, New York Times
Your analysis of economic survival is just plain wrong. I am writing this from a hospital bed. This bed is a black hole of ruin. American economics is not unlike genocide. It kills with a particular focus. The inevitable confrontation found in the structures of self-created inequality invented by the…
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A Psychopath is a Psychopath is a Psychopath
Rising heat is the enemy. But can we afford the time it will take to rid ourselves of the lack of values that blockades the Paris Agreement. Whenever I use the word, psychopath, the New York Times nervously runs, retreating behind the word civility. They will refuse to publish this.…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
AT NIGHT, THEY PACE you were sleeping and I would sculpt your naked body with the contours of my tongue/ you were that flawless carnal bleeding from your hole/ the inside of my mouth was eros drowned in blood/ in the cold hours of the night, you were awake and…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
Our time is over. My time is over. I am on my phone. On my back. Looking at the morning stars and the sunrise dust of light just now warming my world. My mountain Blue Ridge trees have turned bright red and yellow. Those leaves will fall. Autumn has arrived.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
nytimes.com/2019/09/15/us/border-patrol-culture.html… The Border Patrol built concentration camps. So did the Germany’s We Were Only Following Orders. How many KidsRDead via BP’s capricious whim. How many children have been caged. How many will never see their families again. Who will pay. Us. Us monsters.
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Tim Barrus On Being Touched: New York Times
Long before latin became a language, the politics of rape did not mean the translation we think we understand when someone says rape or writes it. Raped meant kidnapped because the Sabines were raped and kidnapped. There was no word for rape in the same way that today we still…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Bone Spurs
Bone spurs. I will not write the King’s name here or anywhere else. That name is now obscene. That name will never be given to any American ship. The name itself is a pornography of hatred, incompetency, and contempt for the rule of law. The King scratches out pieces of…
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Tim Barrus: NY Times: Let’s Have Another Stupid War
Trump has been looking for a war. He could go to war with the State of California. Americans would stand with him shoulder to shoulder because Americans are as fatuous as he is. Trump could invade Vermont, and Americans would applaud. But we have a congress. Oh, really. They could…
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2B Held
I loathe being touched. By anyone. I hate it when they hug me. I freeze. It is a deep flaw within me. I have been battered around enough to see intimacy as a real threat. I have tried to shake it. It will not be undone. They turn toward one…