Questions
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Note: In response to several comments on the inaugural edition of "Questions," I will post whenever I have five questions, rather than making the post a (potentially overloaded) weekly feature.
--Remember the early scene from "Gods and Monsters" where Ian McKellan grants an interview to a cute young (male) reporter on the condition that the lad strip for him? Would it be mean to do the same to young Mormon missionaries? "Yes, you can come in and I will politely and attentively listen to everything you have to say — but only if you take your shirts off first." And if that's too perverted, then how about inviting them in — but on the condition that, once they're finished proselytizing, they have to watch "South Park: All About Mormons"? (Inspired by this comment on another blog. Or was it this one?)
--Is "poverty tourism" (a/k/a "slum tours") a quest for geopolitical enlightenment or rank schadenfreude? (Via Smithsonian Magazine by way of Boing Boing.)
--How many radical Evangelical conservatives, or Republicans in general, know that Rudy Giuliani ran for Mayor of New York on the Liberal Party ticket and not just the Republican? How many do you think will know it by the time primary season rolls around? (Related: How many radical Evangelical conservatives know that Giuliani was married three times, including once to his second cousin, which he got annulled by the Roman Catholic Church after 14 years?) (More thoughts at Southern Expressions.)
--Suppose you are soon to graduate from medical school. Suppose also that State X is proposing a new 3% doctor tax. Are you more or less likely to choose to practice in State X? Phrased differently: How stupid does a politician have to be to think that the best way to increase health care provision in his state is by taxing it? (Note: I've asked this question before, but with State Y.) (Via Kevin, M.D. — be sure to read the comments.)
--Isn't climbing Mount Everest enough of an achievement? Is it really necessary to attempt it wearing only shorts?
--Remember the early scene from "Gods and Monsters" where Ian McKellan grants an interview to a cute young (male) reporter on the condition that the lad strip for him? Would it be mean to do the same to young Mormon missionaries? "Yes, you can come in and I will politely and attentively listen to everything you have to say — but only if you take your shirts off first." And if that's too perverted, then how about inviting them in — but on the condition that, once they're finished proselytizing, they have to watch "South Park: All About Mormons"? (Inspired by this comment on another blog. Or was it this one?)
--Is "poverty tourism" (a/k/a "slum tours") a quest for geopolitical enlightenment or rank schadenfreude? (Via Smithsonian Magazine by way of Boing Boing.)
--How many radical Evangelical conservatives, or Republicans in general, know that Rudy Giuliani ran for Mayor of New York on the Liberal Party ticket and not just the Republican? How many do you think will know it by the time primary season rolls around? (Related: How many radical Evangelical conservatives know that Giuliani was married three times, including once to his second cousin, which he got annulled by the Roman Catholic Church after 14 years?) (More thoughts at Southern Expressions.)
--Suppose you are soon to graduate from medical school. Suppose also that State X is proposing a new 3% doctor tax. Are you more or less likely to choose to practice in State X? Phrased differently: How stupid does a politician have to be to think that the best way to increase health care provision in his state is by taxing it? (Note: I've asked this question before, but with State Y.) (Via Kevin, M.D. — be sure to read the comments.)
--Isn't climbing Mount Everest enough of an achievement? Is it really necessary to attempt it wearing only shorts?
Posted by Kip on
9 March 2007
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