Larry’s List

Stoner Seniors Edition

Feb 25, 2010
Why more old people smoke pot than they used to, what to do when your judge and prosecutor are having an affair, and why Obama's assault on Wall Street is weak sauce. All this and more after the jump.
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Unsolved Mystery Edition

Feb 17, 2010
Why do Americans refuse to believe crime has been going down for a decade? Why are so many of them foot fetishists? And was Rene "I think, therefore I am" Descartes really murdered with a poisoned communion wafer? Answers to these questions and more on today's list.

Yuppie Obama Edition

Feb 5, 2010
Blue whales are changing their tune, medieval trial-by-floating-or-drowning turns out to have been shockingly accurate, and President Obama may have trouble with working people because he's so damned upwardly mobile -- all this and more on today's list.

Welcome Back, da Vinci Edition

Jan 29, 2010
President Obama asked for a better health care plan, so here it is. Native people say "Avatar" is real, so there. But why are they digging up Leonardo da Vinci -- and is there anything left? These stories and more on today's list.

Castro Edition

Jan 27, 2010
Going nuclear in the Senate, the anthropology of "Avatar" and why Fidel Castro sent doctors instead of soldiers to Haiti. These stories and more on today's list.