mysteries

[calimac]

1. Where the ice pooling up in the bottom of our freezer is coming from.

2. Why Sam Alito believes that business executives are reduced to second-class citizens if they aren't allowed to impose their religious views on their employees' health care.

3. Why I keep forgetting to take my "must take with food" pills at lunch, and have to have a second small lunch just for them.

4. Why all of a sudden Marion Zimmer Bradley is now a villain when her second husband's unfortunate sexual proclivities, and her willingness to live with that, has been public knowledge for fifty years.

5. How our drive to San Diego is going to go.  (It will go well, I hope.)

6. What makes Americans suddenly so interested in soccer, after decades of neglect.  (My theory is that this has been in the works ever since Brandi Chastain removed her shirt.)

7. Why all the Gilbert and Sullivan societies are now so interested in staging The Grand Duke.

8. How long it's going to take me to clean up all the errors and omissions in the draft version of the latest annual Tolkien bibliography.  (Back to the sweatbox.)

Comments

[k6rfm.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you don't know how your cash discount compares to what the insurance company paid, because that's secret. I'm quite sure that the insurance company knows what discount you got, though, and uses that in its negotiations.

Making oral contraceptives OTC would just have people skip the monitoring, just hand-waving away the actual risks. Which are, you know. actual. Perhaps some careful analysis would show that the side-effect risks are less than the risks of getting pregnant, but that's a false dichotomy. (And "careful analysis" is rarely found when McArdle and Reynolds are involved. Particularly annoying in the case of Glenn, who was worth reading a decade ago.)

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

I agree that Reynolds is fairly casual, but I tend to find McArdle's analyses informative and clearly reasoned, even when I disagree with them. And in any event she footnotes quite a lot.