Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with new-york-times
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Dogs are not usually on the front page of the New York Times. When they are, it’s an event.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The old rules are not the old rules. There is always something older than the rules. The laws of physics demand it. Why are we looking at the electron differently. Is it a wave or is it a ping pong. Are there zillions and zillions of electrons in the universe…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The very idea that conservatives can be “cultural warrors” is fraught with problems. Like the nature of reality.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
For a self-identified liberal publication, the New York Times takes a dim view on noncomformity. It begins with security in their building. It’s like walking into a vault. The New York Times publishes lots and lots of the POV that noncomformity is unacceptable. I am a radical. They can take…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
To use the idea of “fun” as a weaponized guided cruise missle that hits the wrong wedding in Oman, I am here to tell you that “fun” has little to do with survival, and if you have survived the contemporary world, you have validated yourself in a terrain where validation…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am actually hard on the South. A jaundiced eye. Never use a radiator. We grow great corn around here. I’ve never seen a still. But I have heard whispers about them.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I live at the top of a mountain in the Blue Ridge. I ride a dirt bike. Street bikers think I’m nuts. But who needs a helmet anyway. I am thinking America in my hair. When I ride into a city, someone tries to steal my bike. I have caught…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The term – health insurance company – means a big brick wall, taller (just) than publishing tall, it’s not going to pay although you will receive. Stratospheric bills for the insurance itself, and co-pays times twenty. There are many reasons why this paradigm does not work. It’s called greed. The…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
No one survives a war, even a culture war, you emerge from it with eyes down shaded as the midnight blues, baby blues, a childhood that did not mean you. Then, what did it mean. It didn’t mean anything in the final analysis, kids are fickle. Act your age. No…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
After the pit bull attack, no one could sleep. Today, I drive a dirt bike. Becauuse it’s really fast. It takes off like a match. It could be following me. But I can run that bike faster than a pit bull can kill.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am a communist. I’m not sure if this piece of work on the economy, and the rich are selling pencils and apples on Wall Street. Paypal. This piece is not too hopeful. The unhopeful are wetting their panties over an empending recession. I am not that hopeful. No one…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Or how do you live in a broom closet.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
That permanent storage underground so deliberate in anticipating millenia failure after failure apocalypse and singularity have become rich and strange.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The hurt has been forgotten in the toxic whirlwind of edges and some so sharp as flint cuts well beyond our grasp. Wandering in the cold. The hurt will clutch at any straw.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am constrained by the New York Times from using these words. Fat. Old. White. Men. Guns. It’s their fault. All of it. Readers are not getting the full story. Civility is going to crush us as sure as it shapes who we are and how tolerant we are.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Traveling through America like I do on a dirt bike, gives me a different perspective every time I do it. My favorite place to ride around in has to be Manhattan when I pull up on the dirt bike next to a limo. They try not to look at you…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I admire Ross Douthat’s writing. It is focused and cogent. It’s not stupid. Most republicans are just stupid – Madison. A prerequisite for being a republican is an IQ of less than zero. Of course, they don’t want abortion. They wouldn’t be here.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
When the New York Times talks politics, it will often refer to the Constitution of the United States, a constitution that no has ever read. The New York Times seems so out of touch. No one here in Appalachia has ever seen a constitution. I thought Mr. Constitution knew who…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I do not like taking on educational issues. It’s too big. It’s cumbersome. I have seen it up close all over the country. From blind kids in NYC to deaf kids in San Francisco. To boys with HIV who had learned that education is a hustle, too. Teaching kids to…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
They have done it again. The New York Times does sometimes go with something I might have commented on. As usual, it’s about who I am. I find that there is a spark of tittillation in it, but whose, and why. I do not want to know why. I’m autistic.…
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So The New York Times Got Hacked
Tim Barrus, the New York Times For Ben Hubbard I am a communist. If I was someone working for organized crime in (pretend) Azerbaijan, and I had been checking you out to see if you could be used to facilitate the taking of data, and if you fit the profile,…
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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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finding our voice in dirt
I am a communist. Another New York Times dual NYT piece that refuses to give voice to poverty – AND – they are infinitely obstructionist, not so much politically, but culturally. There is no political unless there is culture that agrees to implemment. “The most pro-worker thing we can do…
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TREE HOUSE
Tim Barrus, New York Times I am a communist. I am building a tree house using the strength of six oak trees. Timber at construction sites. Leftover wood. I find lots of stuff in junkyards and abandoned barns. I am always lugging around something. I have two military camouflage parachutes…
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TIM BARRUS, THE NEW YORK TIMES
The best book I have read this year is The Hidden Life of Trees. The seas and the breeze. It’s not about the tease. Let us look at publishing. My annoying whine with publishing is that it doesn’t tell me anything I do not already know. It’s safe. And then…