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Tim Barrus
A year ago, I was yelling at the NYT to stop what with the – This Might Happen – scenario, and why couldn’t institutions become cognizant that this was happening while it was happening. Waiting to see what might happen seemed totally and utterly irresponsible. But institutions (like the media)…
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Tim Barrus And The New York Times
The deviant is watching us squirm. It’s entertainment. Kennedy is not a serious person. This is the man who once cut off the head of a whale with a chainsaw. He freely talks about eating dogs. What happened to the heroin addiction. Why did his wife commit suicide. What companies…
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TIM BARRUS
The important thing, she said, “is to spread tourism out, so that it’s all over the country — and all over the year.” Seriously. You so do not get it. There is too much of this nonsense. Some of us have said Stop. Just Stop. Not one more inch. It’s…
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Tim Barrus: Quillette
https://quillette.com/2025/08/22/how-cancel-culture-and-sensitivity-readers-are-shaping-the-publishing-industry-and-silencing-dissent-quillette-cetera-ep-51/
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Tim Barrus
Every journalist alive has a crystal ball. What Comes Next is big business. Big podcast. Big names. Big money. Big experts. But what about tomorrow. Hire an expert to build a time machine. So the experts among us make the rules. Most physicists agree that going forward is theoretically feasible.…
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Tim Barrus
The New York Times gives Jessica Grose too much rope. Who is this strange woman. She harps and claws on and on and on – fertility. Is. Her issue. Parenting (OMG) is her issue. Education is her issue. This is a woman who has sat at the journalism table (books,…
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Tim Barrus
cowboy night begins at the reno rodeo/// beer is good for you and your growing children/ the rodeo is about one thing/ ass/ the rodeo is a place where you can’t help yourself/ all that ass/ cards, ass, and jack daniels/ he said let me take a shower/ I said…