Dear Diary: A brutal day that included a meeting with President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia, Dalia Grybauskaitė of Lithuania, and President Andris Bērziņš of Latvia. In fact I was glad to be able to distract the media from our embarrassing hiatus over Syria. After the meeting I held my routine session for the cameras during which I smile and deliver my usual sound bite for non-entity countries: "---- is a relatively small country which punches above its weight and is a loyal / trusted ally of the United States." Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia. I don't think the White House press corpse has any more idea than I do where these countries are. As for President "Andris Bērziņš"--- what kind of crazy name is that?