The Lost Art of the Rant
Daniel Seidel, writing for Slate:
The Web is often rightly criticized by the guardians of high culture for encouraging bilious discourse and sloppy writing, with cruel message-board postings and bloggers attacking one another at the slightest provocation. But in this new golden age of the rant, when the Web allows anyone to lash out about anything at all, it would be foolish to dismiss the more artful and entertaining instances of the genre with the artless ones.
Now I sit back and wait for something to stir my desire to rant against something ridiculous.
