Reason Morning Links: The Surgeon General, General Motors, and Motorcycle Stores

– Sayonara, Sanjay Gupta.

– Sayonara, General Motors.

– Unemployment reaches 8.1 percent.

– New financial resuscitation plan: a trillion-dollar "public-private partnership" with hedge funds and private-equity firms.

– One-eyed director plans to make a statement about surveillance by installing a camera in his prosthetic eye. Coming soon: a documentary about blinking.

– A law aimed at protecting children from lead is now hurting motorcycle shops.

– A West Virginia lawmaker calls for a ban on Barbie.

– A sneak preview of Watchmen.