Phew! (For now)

According to the New York Times,  the Associated Press is instituting guidelines on how bloggers can use their content. Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director of The A.P. says: "We are not trying to sue bloggers...That would be the rough equivalent of suing grandma and the kids for stealing music. That is not what we are trying to do." 

Since we at the Gamut like to make up and write our own news stories, we're not too concerned about being told to cease and desist from quoting AP stories. However, we do like to use photographs we find on the web which we credit whenever we know who took them. Sometimes they are AP photos  which we are fairly certain we could never afford to pay for. Since we're too shallow to actually read the new guidelines, we don't know how they may affect us and the fair use of their artwork. So, for now, we're keeping our sticky little fingers crossed.

Ol' Man Grumpus

Some grumps are cute and some play guitar, some are just mean and really old.

They Feel Pretty!

Preening and primping themselves as if they were going to the senior prom, democratic pols everywhere are scootching in their waistlines and examining their profiles in their bathroom mirrors to see if they have what it takes to be Obama's Right Hand Man (or Woman as the case may be.) We here at the Gamut (per usual, that's the royal we) would like to share some contenders we think are worth considering. Just about anyone who is not part of the old Washington rat's nest is eligible. (It doesn't matter if they are deceased, animated, scantily-clad or very hirsute.) As long as they have a winning smile and a youthful appearance they pretty much can't lose.

End of the Road

Looking as if he's ready to end it all on the campaign trail, Bill Clinton appears to finally understand what a total drag it is to be the spouse of a political candidate.

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As the Clinton campaign draws to a close there is much ponderous blathering about the possibility of an Obama/Clinton collaboration.

Though such a pair would surely be unstoppable, so too would the caricaturists.

If we thought we had it bad in the bad old days of Richard Nixon and Watergate, nothing will save us from the doodles of self-taught artists around the globe should these two decide to join forces.