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Our Categories Are Toxic
Tim Barrus: New York Times I am a communist. A subcategory, as is class, caste, the crime of I Publish Books Under Other Names. Because I loathe the publishing industry for creating ideas and imagery that have everything to do with the writer, where he lives, how many children he…
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An Open Letter to Sona Patel
An Open Letter to Sona Patel, Director, Community, New York Times Thank you for allowing me to comment at NYT. Comments done right are hot. This is, too, exactly the kind of comment I am apt to make in the comment section of the New York Times. I confuse your…
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How Does A Reader At The New York Times Get Away With Saying They Know Someone (me) They Have Never Met
I have a rule. Do not argue with readers at the New York Times. I get to break the rule because I made it. I just don’t recognize who they are talking about as if one thing came before the other so obviously there is some kind of undiscovered reason…
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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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Response to Ezra Kein Ezra Klein’s observation that as far as government was concerned, the adults were eating at the kids’ table. I fell to the floor laughing. What does it mean. It means you can extrapolate physics from the physics of politics. They are not the same. They are…
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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
My bones were dying inside of me. No one knew why. My heart was dying inside of me. No one why. My ability to fly from the roof was only eclipsed by broken bones as brittle as a stick. I take 30 medications a day. Surgeries to replace the bones.…
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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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The Dead Moral Zone
Greed Zone. Yes. Corruption Zone. Yes. Racism Zone. Yes. Lies Zone. Yes. Hate Zone. Yes. Hates The Poor Zone. You bet. Privilege Zone. Yes. Bubba Zone. Yes. All Go To The Same Schools Zone. Yes. Cannot spell the word Capitalism Zone. Yes. Does Not Pay Taxes Zone. Yes. Death Penalty…
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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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From Rusted Bridges Into the River
THE NEW YORK TIMES IS COVERING HOW THE CONSERVATIVES ARE BLAMING ANTIFA FOR WEARING DISGUISES – WHAT ARE THE CONSERVATIVES, TEN. TIM BARRUS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. Appalachia has many rusted railroad briges built around 1900. They are still in use. American infrastructure is broken and fragile. We are…
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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
AMERICAN ECONOMICS IS RUBBISH America is a fascist state. It’s allegiances are to a version of capitalism that has nothing to do with actual human beings who are brainwashed that capitalism is the only way to run a railroad. And America protects its fascist state with a chokehold around the…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
You never listen. It’s not over until it’s over. No future. Only probabilities. A numerical drowning in a game of chance. The house always wins. Which is why when someone wins big at slots, the bells and lightshows all go off hysterically to prove to onlookers that the house can…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
PEOPLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ASK ME MANY, MANY THINGS. OFTEN, I HAVE NO ANSWERS. TODAY THE NEW YORK TIMES BRINGS QUESTIONS FROM READERS THAT ARE STUNNED BY THE ROLE RELIGION PLAYS IN DENIAL AND INTOLERANCE Religion has abandoned its roots of martyrdom for Institutional Martyrdom even as its…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
And then he caved. There are many Americans who worship the great cult leader. They claim to know that he will live forever. What does that mean. It means he will be shielded by his guards (and we will pay for it) for a very long time. I predict prison.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I am one of the people Ross Douthat condemns. I have attended protests. Ross feels those demonstrations should never have happened. “…protests go forward amid a pandemic was justified by redescribing their motor, antiracism, as a push for better public health.” I haven’t heard that one, but it sounds right,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
First, it was kids in cages. Some died. Of neglect. It was beyond cruel. They were sick yet it was public policy to deny them their parents, to deny them food, to deny them water, to make sure they slept in the concrete floor. It was public policy. We took…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
It is not at all hard to imagine a monarchy. In 1658, Cromwell did it. As both head of state and head of government of the new republican commonwealth. He was the new king who chopped off the head of the old king. There are absolutely no facts to support…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Suffering, Groaning, and Dying, Not Far From Paradise Which Is Itself But Another Stonehenge From Hell Try acting as someone else. As in real life. A stage is. That does not mean we have an understanding of the pain, the vacuum of intimacy, any tilting lean toward rage, the thirst…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times tells me that satire is inappropriate for the fucking New York Times. As if. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MONOLITH It is real life where you will find the real hilarity. Unless you are some stuffy, privileged, entitled, East Coast grand pooba with Spell Check software stuck…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Attention. Saluting Ivanka. I’m sorry, but the real issue is not where will these two vile emblems of Vicious America land when they escape their luxurious nest for another luxurious nest that looks and feels exactly like the last one. I just don’t understand how the New York Times can…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
This. On the web. Next to: How To Bake a Turkey. This. From the same folks in every form of publishing who tell me day in and day out, that as I am a writer, I know very little, I’m not very good as a writer anyway, and that they…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Creating the Land of Lies I don’t have to imagine anything. So. Now, the New York Times is accentuating the word lie. Why couldn’t the New York Times call the lies, lies, years ago. Birtherism is another lie among the Elephant Man’s bones of lies. A graveyard. Finally, outrage. Where…