Bob of Freedom

Any idiot can get a knighthood. . But you have to be really fricking special to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian honour an American can receive. And you know who is that special? Bob Dylan. That’s who. And he didn’t even take his shades off.

Also getting medals at the ceremony, smiling nervously and waving at their dad holding a camcorder, were novelist Toni Morrison, astronaut John Glenn, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Israeli President Shimon Peres and Jan Karski, Polish underground officer who reported on the Nazi Holocaust.