Art Clokey, creator of Gumby has died. The cartoon and toy sensation was popular in a simpler, more innocent time. Nowadays, media and marketing provide us with with much more to get bent out of shape about.

Senator Harry Reid has apologized for calling President Obama a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Sources say Reid realized it was the right thing to do last weekend, as he welcomed the arrival of a new year: 1964.