Tim Barrus

I grew up born-and-bred to work the assembly line at Oldsmobile. We did not attend college. No idea what university was. That is where the rich kids went. Whoever they were. We kinda made them up. So we could blame them for the poverty of our lives. I blame them,…

Tim Barrus

I can’t think of three other journalists I would rather listen to. These three cut through issues boom, boom, boom. Thank you. A cogent conversation. Now is the time for the Normals to remember. The TV was darkened to bible black images of the dead being thrown into the backs…

Tim Barrus

I am almost stunned this was published in the New York Times. Thank you. It is informative and has a voice to die for. Parades of ghosts. Authority is coming for you. No one will remember. Because it’s time. They’re coming for you. Yes, they’re coming for you. Who is…

Tim Barrus

I’m sorry. You’ve been had. I said you would be had, and then, you couldn’t buy enough. A Narco-State. A Police-State. A Hysterical-State. Of numbing incredulity. Does America even know what is real. “I will not be arrested.” This tells me you have never been arrested. You are immune from…

Tim Barrus: The State Can Dictate

I am not confused. The first thing government is responsible for – is where to put the dead. A lot of what Ross writes is all mixed up with Catholicism. He’s not being honest about the extent to which The Church’s influence is everything. The Church is a relic from…

Tim Barrus: Always Hopeful

I am autistic. But I am not a dream machine. I do not understand how all of these lists of threats – code for what might happen – can be juxtaposed against what actually did happen. Thusly, what will happen. Simple particle physics. Life happens. We know we can move…

Tim Barrus: Kansas

I am a communist. All the old bedfellows are the new bedfellows. The one thing we can expect from a deviant is deviance. Tear it up to tear it down. It doesn’t come anymore American than that. Down here in the deep South, the managerial class is the caste that…

Tim Barrus: The Center Will Not Hold

Well-written. Crafted. To the point. Informative. Soft landing. Solid journalism. It is focused on a complexity of power. We now have a government that is critically out of control, and we have no idea what to do about it. Cool and calm under pressure think piece. Weapons of mass destruction…

Tim Barrus: The Great Highway

I am a communist. I lived in SF for decades. I like the no cars paradigm. I lived in a hole in the Tenderloin. I’m poor. Looking at the photography that goes with this piece, startled me. I was working in a group home for neurodivergent autistic children. I had…

Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town

Boys And Bedrooms

I am autistic. Sex seems to be the proverbial bugabuga that it’s always been. Leave the kids alone. Or they will find another place and it might not be a place adults approve of. Sex in cars is a lot of work. I would bet the ranch that the two…

Sleeping in the River

I am autistic. My family says: He’s lost in day dreaming again. I’m not there. I am not looking into your eyes. I am not focused on what you are saying. Why. Because I do not care and there it is. As I age, I have less and less reason…

Tim Barrus: Why Can’t You Act Your Age

Take notes. I’m old and ruined. I drive a dirt bike. Fixed for Road Trips. I am autistic. “He’s too old to ride a dirt bike.” Ghosting is easy. My policy is to only know young people. Anyone can talk the talk. Walking the walk is different. And I can…

Tim Barrus New York Times

Take notes. I am living in my car. I have found a cottage in the woods. In two weeks, I move in. A hurricane made sure I am living out of one bag. A photography bag. I have lived out of one canvas bag for fifty years. Sue me. Tonight…

Tim Barrus New York Times

Incendiary Comments is a book that examines my relationship with the New York Times. It’s been a long one. I am publishing my stuff there in terms of following patterns. Themes: Politics. Resistance. Medical. Autism, Neurodivergence (I’m Aspergers).  Economics. Democracy. Homelessness. Work-At-Home. Education. Tech. Suits. Parenting. HIV/AIDS. The whole nine…

Tim Barrus New York Times

Take notes. This is darker than it seems. People need time. There is no time. Allow me to be so bold as to suggest that there is another aspect to this. The media. I indict all of you. Might I suggest that the resistance has been forming the structure of…

Tim Barrus New York Times

Take Notes Standardize. Regularize. Arrange. Conform. Anneal. Temper. Methodize. Sort Out. Balance. Control. These are the rapist’s tools. He applies them to a canvas, and we are that canvas. No mention here of the term rapist. This is what normalization means. It’s called cherry-picking. If we all play polite, maybe…

Tim Barrus New York Times

Take Notes. NYT. Complicit. Capitulation. You are not the polite resistance. What I see is an army of fall-in-line suits. “We validate rape.” Now, it’s normal to rape women. Not even women get it. If a man puts his fingers into a woman’s vagina, and the woman objects, that’s rape.…

Tim Barrrus New York Times

Take notes. The distance between Hiroshima and Seoul is 400 miles. The Koreans know it is in reality, the distance to the moon. History speaks volumes. The next itchy player would be Mao Zedong. The 1950s saw enormous instability. Douglas MacArthur wanted to use the bomb again. And he was…

Tim Barrus New York Times

Take notes. I am still a single parent. Call the babysitter. Go to work. I should be shamed for writing this. That’s the thing about survival. The issue is not morality. This is a class issue. This is an economic issue. This is a caste issue. Mainly women. But I’ve…

Tim Barrus New York Times

The Rapist Is My Current Book Project New York Times 12/13/2024 Take notes. I put my kids on a flight out of this psycho country. The chief psycho’s fundamental desire is to kill Americans. Americans do not not believe it. So, my grandchildren get to be raped and will have…

Tim Barrus Car Thieves

of his bones/ like blackboards built from fingernails/ instinctively full fathoms five/ summer is done/ i said done/ it will never be done/ fingering her/ in the new car/ no fun no fun no fun/ a grey rolls royce/ is definitely fun/ 

Tim Barrus New York Times

Take notes. Appalachia is not cheap. Nevertheless, the endemic poverty of Appalachia is so fundamental, so ingrained, so intransigent, that even I cannot articulate what a waste of lives, resources, no vision that can make it better. Families with dirt floors. No hope.  America is done. Suicide rates for Appalachia…

Tim Barrus New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/opinion/trump-republican-party-cabinet.html#permid=138199476 Take notes. Going under. Some of us have descended into brooding, (I have). Then, I slap myself. I have to stop “doing” anxiety, and start asking better questions. I see it differently than most Americans. I am not allowed to say: Civil War. People write to me, and in…

tim barrus new york times

Take notes. I was a teacher to adolescents with HIV. All of them arrived with a long list of medications. Every school district creates rules like a nurse has to administer all meds, and if students are caught taking their own meds, they were expelled. No drugs. Was a fundamental…