For basically all of my career as a journalist, I’ve heard versions of the same old saying: “There is no such thing as a stupid question.” I am here to tell you that this is not true. Because I’ve been doing this job for nearly 40 years, and I have asked a lot of stupid questions. In fact, I like asking stupid questions, because sometimes they get you the best answers. Sometimes that’s because no one else has lowered themself to ask the question, often with good reason. Sometimes it just works. (A corollary to this is that I…..