Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with opinion
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The Normals Want U 2 Explain
Explain what. I suspect you might get better answers elsewhere. My eyes to the sky. “Explain this!” No.
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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
The Days of Yesteryear. Today, the drugs are better.
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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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Dirt Bike Town
NEW YORK TIMES There are pauper graves here, you just can’t much see them. A couple of chicken scratched brown sand donkey plots, almost red, but put away, and no one comes here, that will be seeded soon. The War Between the States, the Civil War to you, just goes…
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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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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
Now that the regime has the Supreme Court to remove our rights, and they all stand around Dear Leader who is brandishing the Bible, in righteousness, the packed Supreme Court will be empowered in much the same way the DOJ is empowered to function as a personal attorney. What I…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
The monkey cannot beat the jones. Sometimes, photography says it all. Sometimes, photography is straightforwardly in your face. Safron Foer’s piece, and the photograph that accompanies it, hits hard at Americans who struggle with addiction, and the Americans who do not struggle with addiction. To meat. No one wants to…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
HIV clinics, here in Appalachia, often have no doctors on the premises. Doctors are expensive and are seen as a luxury. On a good day. These are not good days. It feels like the 1980s all over again. With HIV, your health is inherently precarious, and when the systems that…
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America is Toast: Tim Barrus, New York Times
Americans are not living through a social crisis. America is dying – not living – through the demystification that has always been smokescreen for what America is actually all about, and always has been. A violent, unequal, class system that denies class even exists. The only evidence that suggests class…
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
David Leonhardt is an opinion/editorial columnist at the New York Times. I agree with him on many things, and admire his writing. Often, his reasoning is lame. If only — we just worked together. If only… I am sick and tired of hearing all the if only we coulds one…