Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with new-york-times-opinion
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TIM BARRUS ON SINGLE PARENTING
Get ready for people leaving your life. Ghosted. My kid and I lived in San Francisco in an old Victorian. I had a job interview, and my babysitter was taken ill. No job interview. No job. It was an opportunity. I leaned in to it. You have to learn how…
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Snake Handlers Religion David French
Take notes. Religion. I want to know where all these leftists live. Is it a town of fugitive leftists. It’s a stereotype. The word leftist is not uncivil. But who are we talking about. The New York times has never connected the word leftist – to whom. Name me one…
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Gus is Extraordinary
Take notes. I wept after seeing Gus so excited for his dad. I have autism. Saying inappropriate things is what I do. You learn real fast to look down at your feet. You creep away. Pulling all your neurodivergent sorries with you. It is extremely obvious that Gus comes from…
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We All Know What Needs to Happen
Take notes. Russia is a failed state. We all know what will happen to Vladimir Putin. If you throw one person off the subway, you’re tried for murder. If you go for the whole train car, you’re a historical figure. Vladimir is the state. The drooping eyelids, puffy grey face.…
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Know When to Hold ‘em
Bells. Whistles. Smoke. Screens. Lawyers. The lawyers win. Americans are famously attracted to the back porch light of conflict. Google invented it. Google wrote the script. Do no harm while you strangle other trade homo sapiens engage in. Are we giving it to you now.” Yes, Google. Yes. Until you…
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Ross Douthat is Wrong
There is a tinge of bitterness here. Let the old man go. Give him in a plaque on the wall. A ribbon. A bottle of Jack. Lunch. He could knight himself. Much ado about much ado. Why. How about because it would be nice. Aren’t we the nice people. We…
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She Can Defeat Him
I was not going to vote. And I always vote. But, not this time. Nevertheless, if Kamala runs, I’m running with her. I’m voting because I want to see those two angry old eyes finally, Blink. I am not too good at enduring the MAGA onslaught. Another four years of…
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
Tim Barrus and the New York Times Republicans are human slime. I have never trusted David Brooks. His faith in the goodness of the American people is toxic. The American people are not conflicted. They’re compliant. “Go kill those people over there because they are not like us.” And so…
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Tim Barrus: Blood in the Water
Sex was once considered to be a political act. Birth control was up for grabs, and birth control is still up for grabs. I remember – those times – when old white men called the shots because they could. The Supreme Court went for guns. Do you think, they won’t…
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MAY WE ALL LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES
Let us imbue all rapists with respect. Let us imbue the rapist with Bibles. Let us imbue criminals with cash. We could dump it out of airplanes flying over Palm Beach. Let us give serial rapists a parade. Flags. Flags. Let us bow down and prostrate ourselves into submission by…
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We Do Not Know What Art Is
I write books that challenge the nature of identity. I do that on purpose. I am not my characters. I am my characters. A lot of that can be done by having one’s characters confront art. Do they confront art or are these fictional people who only look. Most novels…
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TimBarrusNewYorkTimes
I have a very sick and twisted relationship with the New York Times. I used to have one spy. Now, I have two. The fundamental problem with NYT is called Elitism. That word is now a source of friction between the Publisher and the President. Biden will be taking New…
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College by Any Other Name
Tim Barrus and the New York Times Pam Paul at the New York Times always grabs me because she’s a talented storyteller, and often, her work sheds light for me, the reader, into spaces that are reserved by people who are elsewhere. Ms Paul presents to us a glittering vision…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
Great travelers. The great travelers on the happy planet do not include themselves as victims in all the looking back at where they have been. I’m autistic, and really cannot make sense out of how political parties came to be regarded as the tails that wag the dragon. I’m so…
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Appalachia Kicks
I live in Appalachia. Supposedly, this, too, is North Carolina. I live here because it’s cheap. Economics is the great leveler. I eat what I can grow. Why is that supposed to be a humiliation. This is the land of No One Makes Much Around Here Anyway. We are not…
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What Are We Sure Of
The end of democracy. The end of class and caste. A chicken for every pot. If we could all just work together. For togetherness. The end of patriarchy. The end of the hierarchal pyramid that protects the American paradigm that does not work. All of the cultural institutions like education,…
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Comment Moderation is Uncivil
Censorship as an apex predator. The ideation of ideas. We are only allowed to think if exposed to an official archive. Google’s search engine and all those little boxes popping up to pull you into the rabbit hole. The New York Times is not social media. The New York Times…
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Tim Barrus: To Remove His Metaphorical Humanity From Him
Now, he’s god. Those of us who lead kinda mundane lives can read this stuff about one old man – I call him IT to dehumanize him and to rob him of his humanity which will be a challenge because he has no humanity – and how he lives his…
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Tim Barrus: NYT says we will show you what reality is. And then they launch into TELLING us what reality is, and how does this work.
I’m not sure if I trust someone who is writing for the New York Times and is lecturing to me about the really, really real nature of reality. It’s Identity Politiks. Reality is lipstick on a pig. I love pigs. They fight back. When you go to kill them and…