Word: rants
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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health care reform • anecdote that crystallizes the shrieking need for • antipathy toward of hilariously named Republican congressman Zach Wamp is displayed in intense rant that reaches its crescendo with declaration that "health care is a privilege" • support for Obama's efforts toward by many who thwarted Clinton efforts toward...
...dire straits ..." began another call, from Shirley in New Jersey. Others followed from people trying to renegotiate their mortgages or struggling to take care of aging parents. Eventually, Orman started getting antsy. "We should call this show Get Aggravated with Suze Orman," she said after a rant about the mortgage companies. "Can you hear my tummy growling? I'm sitting here fantasizing about a McDouble cheeseburger with onions!" (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...fact the guy who runs Rant Blogger pays for all of this out of his own pocket is ridiculous in this economy. While other newspapers, magazines, and blogs are scrambling for money to stay in business, he just gives it away to anyone with a PayPal account. Normally we can’t get mad at people for getting money, but can this even actually be called a business model? Even Facebook, the grandaddy of all Web 2.0 start-ups that ignored monetization at first, is now having some money problems...
...Both the rant and the laments are too broad. Not everyone who has fallen behind on a mortgage is a loser complicit in the housing collapse. And not every solvent American has broken faith with those who are struggling. Obama, in presenting his mortgage plan, promised to distinguish between the sinners and those unlucky bystanders dragged down by the economy's undertow. His lifeline, he insisted, will not "rescue the unscrupulous or irresponsible." Delivering on that promise is vital to Obama's future, because hope is a tough sell to people who believe that only the wicked prosper. And though...
...showed him some jokes he had written, and got the encouragement that prompted him to get into comedy. After showing the full-length clip of Carlin's "Ode to a Modern Man," his late-career masterpiece in which he boils every 21st century buzzword into a dazzling three-minute rant ("I've been uplinked and downloaded; I've been inputted and outsourced: I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading...."), Jon Stewart simply shakes his head in something close to awe: "Just the most amazing mind, that...