EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The first thing an appellate judge does after picking up the briefs of an appeal is read the district judge's explanation for the decision under challenge. It is impossible to evaluate the challenge — sometimes impossible even to understand it — without knowing why the district court acted as it did. See Hill v. Porter Memorial Hospital,
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