Dear Diary: I look forward to resuming my rightful place at the epicenter of daily news coverage. The past couple weeks have seen me relegated to virtual obscurity by the election of the Pope, by the Conservative Political Action Conference which included the predictable harassment of Me by people such as the Palin woman and Rand Paul whose name sounds like a drag queen's. Oy Vey! Meantime, I have been practicing Hebrew and various quaint Jewish customs in preparation for my visit to Israel, like singing - Hava nagila, Hava nagila, Hava nagila, Ve'nismecha. Hava nagila, Hava nagila, Hava... Pretty good, huh? That will warm Bibi's frosty heart when we meet for what Joe Biden says is the traditional Israeli breakfast of bacon, pork sausage and oysters washed down with a glass of milk. But enough about me...