Today’s daily question isn’t a real question — it’s rhetorical.

I recently taught my six-year-old how to operate the lock on her door, so that she could keep her room inviolable from the predations of her 19-month-old sister. It took her literally four days until she woke up in the middle of the night and locked her room before morning, so that I could not wake her up to get ready for school. When I knocked and yelled, make no mistake: she was awake. She was just pretending not to hear. When I picked the lock and came in a few minutes later, she was remorseless: “You guys always wake me up, I just want to sleep in. I wish every day was the weekend!” I didn’t ask her, rhetorically, “What were you thinking?” but I could have.

I am also not going to ask Sean Murphy that, rhetorically or not

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