Questions

[magid]

1. Why would a radio station bleep sh** but not bleep cr**? Same length word meaning essentially the same thing.
   
   
2. For the Passover observers:
   Why is mustard considered kitniyot? (Yes, it can be powdered, but I cannot imagine anyone ever making crackers/bread wholly out of mustard powder!)
   Why is baking powder permissible? (Since it, like yeast, makes things rise.)
   And why is wild rice considered kitniyot, given that it is a grass like quinoa, which is permissible?
   
   
3. For those who have read Sheri Tepper's Gibbon's Decline and Fall:
   Which vial do you think Carolyn chose in the end? (Ruby = mated pairs with few children, topaz = parthenogenic, emerald = only chosen pregnancies, sapphire = extended youth without adolescence until later maturity, lapis = as it was.)