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Sometimes one commits a rant to paper. That is almost always a mistake. A rant should be transient. It should blow away like sudden, violent weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oh, Shut Up! The Uses of Ranting | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...seems a shame to inhibit a good ranter. But ranting is not always entertaining. Often it is embarrassing, even shaming. Sometimes, if it issues forth from a politician or religious zealot with ambitions, it becomes sinister. The U.S. has a fairly rich tradition of ranters, from Thomas Paine to Joseph McCarthy to Spiro Agnew (whose ranting was actually a satire on the form) to Louis Farrakhan. A citizen named Peter Muggins caught the essense of the rant in an intense if repetitious letter to Abraham Lincoln: "God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oh, Shut Up! The Uses of Ranting | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...internal rant eats at the ranter. It degenerates into impotent eloquence. It tears apart the system like hard drugs. Ranting, after all, is a form of theater, just as theater, too often, is a form of ranting. Both require an audience. --By Lance Morrow

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oh, Shut Up! The Uses of Ranting | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Complaining is a Harvard student’s favorite pastime (see Stephen Fee’s Rant of the Week). I often gripe about Social Studies 10, and I feel totally justified. Yes, I would like some cheese with my “whine.” And feel free to call the “wah”-mbulance...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stephen Fee’s Rant of the Week | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

...just the Western Front, but Piccadilly and the Champs Elyses and Stalingrad. Second, because it was both a war and a crime--6 million Jews and perhaps 4.5 million others exterminated. What Reagan may not understand is that cemeteries house visible ghosts. At Bitburg, the SS troops still rant and hunt. At Bergen-Belsen the children still weep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Nightmare | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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