After nearly 12 years of relentless bloodshed in Afghanistan, it is hard to believe that long-awaited peace talks with the Taliban could now be thrown off course by something as simple as a row over a flag and a ceremonial plaque.
One slip on an assault course and even something as simple as the right to your own home might come under threat.
Of course, something happens as you move along the spectrum from Where's Spot? to Mrs Dalloway.
It would be wrong, of course, to assume that something as simple as the reopening of a restaurant means the problems of Tacloban are over.
To say this, of course, is to say something as obvious as "pork chops cost more at Dean & DeLuca than they do at Key Food".
Performance is one indicator, of course, but so is something as simple as a swimmer who has stopped smiling, Mr. Busch said.
Of course, making any reconstructions of something as complex as color from a 10-million-year-old fossil will involve some uncertainty.
"You've got to have clear, ongoing consent, and of course if you've got something as sophisticated as a traffic light signal then you're fine.
Everyone in the Gears of War universe can take entire magazines of ammo, because of their tougher hides or massive armoured suits, so of course it makes sense that something as simple as a chainsaw should be one of the more effective ways to end their days.
But, of course, the union has to get something as well.
