A peculiar defense of Dennis Rodman‘s recent trip to North Korea, by USA Today contributor Lionel Beehner:

[W]e have no shortage of out-of-work B-list celebs to spare for diplomacy junkets that could put their acting chops to good use. Let’s get Lindsay Lohan on a plane to Belarus (if it’s a one-way flight, all the better). How about Kim Kardashian as our next ambassador to Cuba?

I don’t care if Carrot Top is negotiating our nuke terms in North Korea, or the actor who played “Screech” gets a “bilat” with Iran’s mullahs. Whatever works is preferable to the long-held U.S. view that somehow ignoring states is so painful a snub that they would hand over their nuclear football and turn their labor camps into shopping malls.

He’s serious, by the way. Full column here.

@eScarry