In this six-minute, State Department-provided clip, Karen Hughes (Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy) and Condoleezza Rice, GQ’s MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN WASHINGTON, DC, sit on a couch and chat with Cal Ripken, Jr., the famous baseball player. He apparently works for State now? As… Ambassador of Baseball? MORE »

Our best friends the Saudis are doing us yet another solid — such bros they are! They might, maybe, if they feel like it, upgrade diplomatic relations with that little experiment we’re running over in Iraq. They still don’t really trust Nouri al-Maliki’s Shia government (who does!), and they think he’s kind of a pawn of Iran (who isn’t!) but hey, maybe they’ll open an embassy. You know, eventually. MORE »

Condi Rice is still the Secretary of State [can an intern confirm this?], but no one likes her or cares what she has to say. According to former New York Times foreign reporter Joel Brinkley, Rice’s influence worldwide has steadily fallen since she took over for the also-unloved Colin Powell 2 1/2 years ago, because Iraq is a mess and Bush is a lunatic and she is Bush’s bestest girl ever. MORE »

Moratinos emphasized that Spain’s relationship with Castro is also geared toward ensuring a transition to democracy. Spain’s diplomatic presence in Havana allows it to maintain more contact with Cuban dissidents than the U.S. has, he added. MORE »

President Bush’s food tester is going to have a shitty Independence Day — Vladimir Putin’s coming to Kennebunkport! MORE »

The Queen of England is still here, trying to surreptitiously take back the US for the British Empire under cover of darkness in a backroom deal with Dick Cheney, the Church of Scientology, a number of Freemasons, and Hitler’s brain. MORE »

The U.S. Embassy in Angola invited 50-Cent to address their staff — and their staff’s children — on the subject of HIV and AIDS awareness last month. It turned out pretty much as you’d expect. MORE »

President Bush: Hungry for diplomacy! And food. Mostly food. MORE »

Remember 2002, when we were all flyin’ high on paranoia and dread? Those reassuring warpigs in the Bush Administration knew what we needed: more enemies with more firepower, to keep America on its toes. And so Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and North Korea was enriching Uranium.

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CNN had an EXCLUSIVE interview with Condi Rice today on the Situation Room today! MORE »

Photo by Liz Gorman, mustache by Frederick’s of Hollywood.

Crazed nutjob/American Ambassador to the UN John Bolton is apparently quite a catch. The man’s a bit media shy, seldom available to the press for one-on-one interviews. Unless, of course, you’re a big-breasted woman with a position on Israel somewhere to the right of Meir Kahane — as, conveniently enough, crazed nutjob/blogger Pamela “Atlas” Oshry is, helping her to score (ugh) two exclusive, bubbly interviews (”yeah, baby”?!?) with the man (one of which we’ve previously touched on [ugh again]).

Sadly, if you don’t display a banner on your blog identifying yourself as a “fan of disproportionate response,” you have a slightly harder time of it. Even with boobs! After the jump, learn the tragic tale of rejection by a man who looks like he ought to try to keep his options open.

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