If you still haven’t heard of Murphy’s law, let me tell you how it reads: Says Murphy’s law, "If anything can go wrong, it will." Murphy’s law and others like it are not laws in a scientific sense; they are not laws in the sense that the law of gravity is a law. But they do capture human moments that are repeatable among us to the point where they seem more the rule than the exception. An enterprising fellow by the name of Arthur Bloch has put laws of this kind together between two covers and the result makes interesting and delightful leisure reading.1 Ginsberg’s theorem, for example, reads like this: 1. You can’t win. 2. You can’t break even. 3. You can’t even quit the game. Atwood’s Fourteenth Corollary declares, "No books are lost by lending except those you particularly wanted to keep…