Newt becomes "Nut"

This morning, as I was walking on the treadmill at the gym and reading the captions on the bank of muted TV screens, CNN's anchor was discussing Newt's announcement that he's actually running for president.

As usual, the voice-activated, automatic translator of spoken word into written captions made a lot of mistakes -- often using a phonetic spelling for something unrecognized.

I chuckled in deep satisfaction when, not once, but twice the caption read "Nut" instead of "Newt." (see, "ew" is a long "u" sound, so they wrote nut).

Thus, a new thread is born: "Newt = Nut." In which I will chronicle my deep antipathy toward this integrity-less, dangerous man who thinks he should be our next president.

Ralph