Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with ross-douthat
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Tim Barrus Blog
“All politics to existential conflict.” The term: “The Left” is an existential crutch. ” Who are these people. The Left. It’s an illusion. There is no such thing as the left, and any war against people who do not exist is a little silly. The left, the left, the left,…
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Tim Barrus
Republicans want to kill us. Erase that. Republicans are killing us. That alone will get me kicked off The New York Times. Again. The truth is just the truth. Americans cannot face the truth. You live in an ugly country inhabited by ugly people with their fetish for a king.…
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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…