(FORTUNE Magazine) – In which your correspondent, for some reason he cannot remember, continues to sit here asking questions to which answers would be superfluous at best: ) How come Teddy Kennedy kept such a low profile during the recent Meese confirmation hearings and even when present had a unique angle about the main point at issue (he kept suggesting it was civil rights), all the while showing no interest in the line taken by his Democratic colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, which is that a history of unethicalism disqualifies people from high office? ) Is the IRS more concerned about (a) getting folks to fill out the forms properly, or (b) overturning sexual stereotypes, and if the answer is (a), then why is the agency creating confusion for the country's employers of domestic servants, who will instantly go wrong when they set out to complete the appropriate W-2 because the sample filled-out form casts the servant as a fellow named John R. Doe and his boss as Mary Q. Public, or has the Treasury not been told that 95% of household employees are female? ) As long as Civil Rights Commission Chairman Clarence Pendleton is going around boasting of the Reaganites' success in battling employment quotas, why hasn't he stressed that the President could unilaterally abolish the main legal basis for these quotas, this being the executive order requiring goals and timetables for federal contractors, which Ron has left on the books? ) Did Mario Cuomo ever dream, when he made his ''family of America'' speech at the Democratic Convention, and called on the party to ''save the nation from . . . division,'' that six months later he'd be asking the courts to sustain his right to exclude California wines from New York grocery stores?