Heading up the week's "irony" department is the news that music legend Bob Dylan, muse to a million hippies and pacifists, believes in handguns for self defense.

In his new autobiography, Dylan speaks about how he got the guns, " two pistols and a rifle," to protect himself from his "fans":

"At first, it was merely the nomadic homeless making illegal entry - seemed harmless enough, but then rogue radicals looking for the Prince of Protest began to arrive - unaccountable-looking characters, gargoyle-looking gals, scarecrows, stragglers looking to party, raid the pantry"

Dylan also seems to disparage the very baby boomers that worship him, when he notes:

"I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of...In my real life I got to do the things that I loved the best and that was all that mattered - the Little League games, birthday parties, taking my kids to school, camping trips, boating, rafting, canoeing, fishing.."

So to recap: Bob Dylan owns handguns for self-defense, lives a suburban dad lifestyle, would go fishing, and disparages the 1960s generation.

Are we sure he isn't a closet Republican?