AI Overview
The story of Diogenes and his cup is an anecdote about the Greek philosopher’s radical simplicity and self-sufficiency. While carrying a simple wooden bowl, he saw a boy drinking water directly from his cupped hands. Realizing the boy needed no extra tool, Diogenes threw his cup away, stating that a child had “beaten” him in living with less. This event became a symbol of the Cynic philosophy, which rejected material possessions in favor of a life lived in accordance with nature.
WDBS (What did Bob say?)
Gentlemen, he said
I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes
I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
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An’ here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice
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I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is to see you
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Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin’ down
I feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door
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But to live outside the law, you must be honest
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Lookout kid, they keep it all hid.
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Gates of Eden
Bob Dylan ‧ 1965
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
| noun | 1. Social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values. |
The Full Monty–The Ides of March, 2026 )
PROLOGUE
DEAR MR./MS. “SPAM”,
You are in business. I am not. Everything I have written is free to all.
PLEASE QUIT CALLING ME.
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Two Links: 1. The Barton Project ( Earlier selected articles )
https://barton.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=79836717
2. Subsequent Selected Articles:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K3qpwHvh4PtTWvhcDcCtVE2CuBBaJ8_JIWuX6fZelb0/edit?tab=t.0
https://littlegreenbookoftennis.com/2025/07/16/nexus/
TIME OUT !
Do kids ever feel bad about killing villians in video games??
How about pushing the button when it’s real?
PTSD from knowing that school had 100 plus young girls in it?
MINNESOTA MURDERS?
VENEZUELLA GUYS FISHING ?
“EPSCAPADES” ?
Man in the Long Black Coat
Song by Bob Dylan ‧ 1989
Preacher was talking there’s a sermon he gave
He said every man’s conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it’s you who must keep it satisfied.
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Dylan again, from SENOR–( “….He said, “Son, this ain’t a dream no more, it’s the real thing”)
Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.
From THE NEW YORK TIMES today
( On Artificial Inteligence )
Let me make the pace of improvement concrete, because I think this is the part that’s hardest to believe if you’re not watching it closely.
In 2022, AI couldn’t do basic arithmetic reliably. It would confidently tell you that 7 × 8 = 54.
By 2023, it could pass the bar exam.
NYT today-
Using a proprietary search tool, The New York Times identified more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Mr. Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of emails, government files, videos and other records released by the Justice Department. Previous installments of the Epstein files, which the department released late last year, included another 130 files with Trump-related references.
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What are the odds?
Wonder what % of all these files and references and emails and government files and videos and records have “redactions”?
Do references to sexually transmitted disease from “Russian girls”
hint at blackmail possibilities ?
“He wouldn’t do that ! “ (Really? It would be the first evil thing he wouldn’t do.)
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Heartland == BOB AND WILLIE
There’s a big achin’ hole in my chest now where my heart was
And a hole in the sky where God used to be.
My American dream
Fell apart at the seams.
You tell me what it means,
You tell me what it means.
January 14, 2026–from David French in NEW YORK TIMES:
When I think of the contrast between Jesus’ life and ministry and the will to power that has consumed so many Christians, I’m reminded of the words usually attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
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