Newt departs presidential race, finally

It seemed altogether fitting to add a coda (two more lines) to Maddow blogger Kent Jones' clever eulogy to Newt Gingrich: Let it be woven into the tapestry of human events that on this Second Day of May, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twelve, American Colossus Newton Leroy Gingrich graciously bowed out of the race to become President of these United States. And a nation wept. Not from sadness, but from laughing out loud uncontrollably. So endeth our (latest) national nightmare.