Mr. Frost, who lives in San Francisco, gives New York itself an out-of-date review ("streets are dirty, people are crass, crime rate is high") but he seems to have the restaurant scene in focus.
And the press is asleep at the switch, oblivious of this crass crime, this kidnapping and taking hostage of the American people by 40-some Republican politicians, who put their greed for power ahead of the economic suffering spread rife in our land.
For a foretaste, look at Primorski Krai, a miserable spot in far-eastern Russia where crass politicians, rampant crime and economic decline have given people a hellish winter.The final bit of the political chart looks worse or better depending on your love of democracy or conversely order.
The invocation of the Espionage Act against whistleblowers who are blatantly not "traitors" but have acted in the public interest is one of Obama's most squalid, crass, and cowardly crimes, the recourse of an incorrigible prig and a bully rather than that of the noble statesman Obama imagines he will be remembered as.
But a show like "Chicago," though set in the 1920s, now seems ahead of its time in its cynical portrayal of a crass, amoral celebrity culture in which crime pays.
Here, there has also been a crass decline -– the rate of crimes committed has dropped significantly ever since the Middle Ages, saw a spark again around the 1960s, but since 1990 has been dropping and dropping.
Without wanting to be crass, they're both essentially going "I tell you the worst crime I ever saw" and the other one fights back with a story of his own.
Twitter users are the gigabyte Gestapo, the not-so-secret police that will hound you for your comment crimes if you're unlucky enough to be stupid and crass.
The crime would have been the same and spectators (no matter how few) would have witnessed a crass lack of professionalism.
The outcome came as a victory for federal prosecutors, whose earlier trial resulted in a deadlocked jury on most counts and led people to wonder whether Mr. Blagojevich's behavior would ultimately be deemed crass political deal-making or a lot of wishful, blustery talk, but not rise to the level of crimes.
This contest feels crass.
