American diplomacy and foreign affairs have reached a new low. Ol' Yassir Arafat comes to Washington to discuss the middle east peace accords, and gets an update, prime time live no less, on our president's extra-marital sex life.

Poor guy is sitting there with Bill, thinking that there might be something serious going on, and finds himself in the middle of a lecture by our president on the finer points of blow jobs.

To which our Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, responds with a news conference on the next morning. It seems that she and Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, are of the firm conviction that we should all stop being preoccupied with who's blowing who in Washington D.C., and get back to important things in life, like stopping folks from smoking in bars.

At least folks in bars are blowin' smoke -- Washington just blows.

Poor Buddy's a little confused by all of this. He can't figure out what all the fuss is about. From watching Bill, he figured that blowin', smoke or otherwise, was just a routine part of life.

Buddy just padded down the hallway to do a little historical research.

Yassir went back to Palestine.

No wonder other nations don't take the USA seriously anymore. Other countries are concerned with things like economic policy and stopping wars. We've got our undies in a bundle about smoking and blow jobs.

Oh yeah, Buddy is curious about whether the Roman Emperor Nero has a dog. Next, Buddy will be taking lesson on the fiddle.