…oh, dear lord, not this again. This is what happens all the time. For some reason, and I will never figure out why, people seem compelled to insist that, if we just look past his Dickhead Tourette's, Newt Gingrich has an interesting mind. (And, no, he really doesn't. He has a mental steamer trunk full of Rube Goldberg contraptions, some history he bought cheap off the "Irregular" pile, and toy dinosaurs.)
We thank Señor Mannion for bringing us this priceless quote by Charles Pierce…