Which is the real Mr Brown?There are a couple of conveniently easy answers to this riddle.
The answer, conveniently, can be summed up in one word: London.
The obvious answer — conveniently overlooked by the 535 well-insured members of Congress — is to stick with our rallying cry, but give Congress a more cost-effective plan.
The opposite of a random sample is sometimes labeled a convenience sample, in which those conducting the survey gather the views of everybody who conveniently stops to answer questions.
"Because Google Glass has not yet been released and we are uncertain of Google's plans to incorporate privacy protections into the device, there are still a number of unanswered questions that we share," wrote eight congressmen, along with the email of an assistant that Mr. Page could conveniently submit his answers to.
It is not for nothing that veterans of the Great War disrupted cenotaph ceremonies in the 1920's, complaining that much was being made of the dead – who conveniently, politicians have noticed, cannot answer back – while the living suffered on.
"Medicare Audits Show Problems in Private Plans" (front page, Oct. 7) reads like a greatest hits of what's wrong with for-profit health insurance: Promise them anything, bait and switch, don't answer phone calls, conveniently mishandle payments by a population that is living on borrowed time, and then withdraw when something turns out to be too expensive.
Rather than deal with what's at the root of an issue, increasing numbers of us seem to look for an answer that comes conveniently packaged in a bottle of one sort or another.
This is, conveniently, also a reasonably straightforward question to answer.
Conveniently, the lottery's grant-giving bodies ultimately answer to Ms Jowell, who has decreed that they must give up another £675m.
