The L-Words and Curve Balls.

Martin Bashir has Barnie Frank on, who mentions the two L-words apply. Bashir even borrowed and twisted my line. My first reaction was, then there is the L-curve, also two-fold. Ed Schultz rubs it in and Rachel Maddow points out the Republican field is being graded on a curve. There is another intersection with my early reaction. Newt Gingrich was working the Jack Abramoff angle on Freddie Mac. Now we know why he has been at it* for 53 years, or beaten in 53 years?
* I think that is the original interpretation: that it was his trip to France at age 15, maybe he found his Gaul. (not to be facitious, it is admirable that he may have found interest in history at age 15. Incidentally the same age I was politically activated by the likes of Plato and R. Buckminster Fuller. Only the latter actually being a contemporary presence, at the first Earth Day.)
(Speaking** of Curve Balls)

** Hagen Daz of the hour? Not even Queen for a day.