Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with ross-douthat
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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
I cannot remember a single time when Ross has articulated another take on the BugaBuga that is religion, the same religion that wants converts to the cult of Niceness. None of us is sacred, Ross. Some of us will not go down in our beliefs that entire economic systems complicit…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Here, in Appalachia, we’re too uneducated to be joyful. We do not live in America, and we are quite good at ignoring debilitation because it might mean us. We know decrepitude when we see it. It’s ordinary. School is decrepit. Media is creeping decrepitude. Law is decrepit. The coal mines,…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Civility Dreampolitik is denial. Cute. Deathpolitik is far more real. I am not the kind of person who should be reading this smart, somewhat intellectual take on what happened as if this might be 2016 again and again. Georgia voters should be reading this. The groundhog is still in the…