The New York Crank

Impotently fulminating about absolutely everything since 2006. Postings whenever I happen to get around to them. Ditto comment moderation. You got a problem with that?

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Curses! The mother of all maledictions surfaces in the San Francisco Bay Area. Plus, Le Scandale des Flip-Flops flummoxes French flics.

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  Please correctly pronounce what this Frenchman has on his feet. They are “fleep-flopes!” Long O on “flops”, s’il vous plait. Let me right ...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Where do women belong? Burger King and the British rag The Mail, learn some painful lessons. Is Tucker Carlson next?

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  Umm, before you blow your top, find out what the rest of the ad says Semi-literacy isn’t limited to knuckle-dragging Trumpsters.  It would...
Thursday, March 04, 2021

Trump hacked! Pizza Guy smacked! Big bank rats out wreckers and rioters! So who says there’s nothing but bad news these days?

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 What do you get when you combine a story about an irate Pizza CEO with one about a bank ratting out its customers?   I’m writing this on Th...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Bing! Bang! Boom! You’re dead! He’s dead! She’s dead! Everybody’s dead! (But it’s worth it for the great swag I got from the NRA!)

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            I mean, isn’t this cool stuff  worth  a few measly lives?   News from all over!   • In France,  a 25 year old Brit who had been ...
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Friday, February 19, 2021

Where are they now? A peek into the future of the former Trump administration.

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                                    "I see the future and it tickles."   The following is an excerpt from a soon-to-be-founded mag...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Modest proposals concerning statues, the weather, Tom Friedman, and Wyoming — plus an honorable mention for the Texas power grid

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License plate recently seen in New York City. On a Beamer, of course. It has nothing to do with anything else here. Just sayin'. A modes...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

A name by any other name would smell as nomenclatural

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Who’s the pearl of a genius who thought up this name? As I sit writing this, the Senate of the United States (I assume this since I’m not wa...
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Sunday, February 07, 2021

“Vax THIS!” or, You Can’t Be Too Vulnernable to COVID-19. Or Too Stupid.

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  Image lifted from my favorite photography website, PeopleOfWalmart.com And so the insanity continues . Back on January 15 th , I posted he...
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