Will Health Care Reform Be Popular as a Comic Book?

Jim Newell · 02/08/11 02:24PM

Experts who support the new health care law haven't been able to sway public opinion much with the drab language of health economics. So now they'll just make a comic book — sorry, graphic novel — about it and see if that does the trick. You love comic books and movies about comic books, don't you, America? Well just wait until the comic book ethos is applied to such sexy topics as risk pooling and the medical-loss ratio, by an MIT economist author!

Gossip Girl: Never Trust a Belgian

Richard Lawson · 02/08/11 02:15PM

Snoooooze. Wasn't last night's episode boring? What happened? Nothing! Well, I mean, things happened, but nothing sexy, really. It was all about business and morals and, like, whether parolees should stay at your house and stuff. Who cares! Who among us hasn't answered the question of whether a parolee should live in our house a long time ago, and in our own way? These are mundane, well-trod topics people, and they do not make for exciting television. Sigh.

Welcome Our New Alien Overlord: V's Laura Vandervoort

Chris Wyman · 02/08/11 02:10PM

With a name like "Vandervoort," it's no wonder this fashionable Canadian plays extra-terrestrials on V and Smallville. In this clip, Laura dishes on some of the disgusting pranks that transpire behind the scenes of the outwardly humorless series V.

Three Men and a Bulldog

Studio@Gawker · 02/08/11 02:00PM

Here's a little quiz: When your best friends from college call to invite you down to the bar right when you're in the middle of a relationship-building session of Wii Tennis with your new live-in girlfriend, which of the following is the appropriate course of action?

We Want Your Best and Worst Breakup Stories

Brian Moylan · 02/08/11 01:00PM

We are about to enter the manufactured romantic season of Valentine's Day with all its candies, cards, and flowers. Boo! Instead of having a candlelight dinner, we're going to celebrate the darker side of romance: the breakup.

The Best A Capella Rendition of "Thriller" You'll Hear Today

Marie Bardi · 02/08/11 12:35PM

A capella group Duwende certainly does justice to a very difficult and iconic song with their version of "Thriller," recorded in real time without lip syncing. What wins your vote for favorite "Thriller" cover this week - this or Glee's?

Legendary Democratic 'Centrist' Group Folds

Jim Newell · 02/08/11 12:12PM

The Democratic Leadership Council has been a bogeyman to liberals for decades, symbolizing the party's corporate sellout with its philosophy of spreading public welfare through market-based solutions. It was the organization that then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton chaired in the '80s; when he became president, he adhered to its policy goals: welfare reform, balanced budgets, free trade. The DLC would go on to support the invasion of Iraq in 2003, for some reason.