because it's Friday...

and I currently have no pets to blog, I give you Charlie Pierce guest-posting on Altercation:

Hey Doc:
Tree's up.  Roches are singing -- well, now it's Marianne Faithfull with the Chieftains. I love my shuffle function -- and I'm feeling so merry and bright that I will amiably ask the question that's been rattling around my head since I saw that photo on Page One of the Times from the Medal of Freedom ceremony. To wit,

Which one's Shemp?