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Posts tagged with covid
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Tim Barrus: Public School is Babysitting
What I see are kids who feel betrayed. Adolescents feel betrayed while mom and dad twist in the wind. Adolescents feel everything. A leaf blows in the yard. No summer school. Fear and loathing in family after family. Adolescents run away and no one knows what will happen next but…
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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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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The Plot To Help America’s Children Responding To Readers: New York Times @Tom Yes. I took one thing and made it seem like another thing because it is. Capitalism is a religion. Not of sorts, but of ideology. I have been dirt poor my entire life. I find it almost…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
“I don’t see how I can make it work.” Right. It’s humiliating. Degrading. We are a region, not a state. How do you address poverty in West Virginia, and forget the states it borders. Haves and have nots all over again. Survival is ephemeral. Nothing works. I borrow the school…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
WE ARE THE LIVING DEAD The issue of hunger finally arrived in Appalachia. People cannot feed their children. The suicide rate has exploded as have the covid cases. No one is joyful to come back home. Home is often a trailer in the woods, and no one left for the…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
The list of things I will not do is far longer than the list of things I will do. For one thing, I won’t get close enough to touch you. I jerk off. Wearing a mask. You watch. And, no, I will not let you touch me for more money.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Adapt or die. What happens in Sturgis will not stay in Sturgis. Ignorance, hubris, and intransigence exist in the soul of America. Our species is subject to the same biological constructs that exist in every single evolutionary paradigm of adapt or die. It doesn’t matter if you want Johnny and…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
Insanity Is the Status Quo. The country is collapsing. The culture is collapsing. Institutions are collapsing. The economy is collapsing. Authority maintains that everything is fine, here in Appalachia. There is no evidence to support this. There is evidence that the opposite is true. We are the only family on…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
Moms need weed. I am not supposed to say that. I am not supposed to write it either. There are no moms here. It’s me and the boys. We have not been in public in three months. I put all the furniture out on the veranda. We can sit and…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Tim Barrus New York Times An Open Letter to Dr. Fauci https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/coronavirus-live-updates.html#commentsContainer&permid=107865923:107865923 In the beginning of the pandemic, I thought Dr. Fauci would definitely become front and center as our defense against covid. But he was outfoxed by power and Trump. Now, he stands behind Trump with his hands folded…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
I am never shocked. But I am shocked to see the photographs. This is called denial. This is called Nothing Happened. This is called death. Cultural denial begins with leadership. He’s steering himself. Only himself. He’s floundering. We did this to us. We must take responsibility for it. We bought…