Word: ranted
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...spontaneous situations, like Belafonte's rant last week, the response is almost always paralytic silence. It would have been quite appropriate and human-and long past time-for either Clinton or Obama to push back, "Harry, do you think we'd have food stamps or Medicaid without the Democratic Party? Didn't you notice how life improved for the working poor after President Clinton passed the earned income tax credit? Tonight, when you're sipping Chablis in your New York City apartment, there will be thousands sleeping on cots in shelters. We're trying to help them. Your anger doesn...
...they will not be like Core classes, it also means that theyll be disasters if their boundaries arent well defined. Imagine a course on global culture. Opponents of Western civ courses already criticize the fact that they cover too much material too fast. These are the same people who rant that these courses unfairly privilege Western values. At least Western civ courses focus on a specific culture within defined boudaries, instead of focusing, like many global civ courses purport to do, on the boundaries where civilizations intersect. As McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment writes...
...Technorati.com Long the best blog-search option on the Web, Technorati indexes by topic, allowing you to find, say, just those blogs that rant about cats. It also lists the most popular terms people are blogging about and features a nice Top 100 list...
Truth be told, the movie Barbershop was sitcom-like to begin with, and not in a bad way. Most of the funniest gags came not from the wispy plot but from people standing around talking. And along with the broader humor were flashes of commentary, notably a controversial rant from a character played by Cedric the Entertainer, who said Rosa Parks was an overrated civil rights hero and "ain't do nothing but sit her black ass down...
...please,” I said. “All you do is complain about my complacency. All you do is label me a sellout, throw around stereotypes about politicos and unthinking supporters of the status quo, rant about the IOP and mainstream party politics. You’re not better than me. You’re no less prejudiced and no more willing to listen.” With this, I checked my cell phone for the time and took a sip of my now lukewarm coffee. It was time...