DRAWING A CONTRAST BETWEEN BOB DYLAN AND SKIP GATES. On the other hand, there’s this: “I find it pretty depressing. There was a time when we condescendingly used the term ‘your papers, please’ to distinguish ourselves from Eastern Block countries and other authoritarian states. Post-Hiibel, America has become a place where a harmless, 68-year-old man out on a stroll can be stopped, interrogated, detained, and forced to produce proof of identification to state authorities, despite having committed no crime. I guess I just don’t see the punchline.” Nope, but there’s a Ray Bradbury story reference. . . .