15 Minutes of Jesus

Evangelicals have a desperate need to be cool. From their trademark infringement t-shirts (Jesus is the Real Thing, made to look like the Coca-Cola logo), to their pop music that sorta sounds like pop music, to their movies, all starring … Continued

Mock Rant

The Rant offers the following scenario: One day while innocently cruising the internet, you stumble on a site called The Colon Guys. To your amazement, you’re on it under a byline that reads, What’s He Hiding? Apparently your forgot to … Continued

A Darker Shade of Rant

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”—Seneca   The Rantosphere has been abuzz with the notion that The Rant might have grown a wee bit too dark of late. We don’t know what you’re talking about. Just because … Continued

Rant for the Nobodies

The Rant would posit a simple understanding of a country’s general well-being: How easy/difficult is it to be a Nobody? Let’s define a Nobody as a person that wields little power outside their family and social circle, has little access … Continued

Department of Rant

The Rant is excited to announce that we have been named the head of the Department of Unwinding Craptacular Hopeless Elites, or DOUCHE. Who knew that concentrating all wealth and power in the hands of emotionally stunted, egomaniacal, raging white … Continued

Wicked Good

The philosopher Michel Foucault once wrote: “the body becomes a useful force only if it is a productive body and a subjected body.” Foucault was describing society in economic and political terms, but he might as well been describing my … Continued

RantTok

The Rant has always found America’s belief that a simple gesture, normally tinged with hysteria, can solve its systemic problems as oddly amusing. We offer up the current iteration: The fate of TikTok. Let’s review: The TikTok is a video … Continued

The Rant Keeps Turning

The Rant has only one New Year’s resolution: avoid the Norovirus at all costs. Once the province of cruise ships, (Come for the buffet, stay for the vomiting! Would you like a side of seasickness with that? Enjoy), the Norovirus … Continued

Merry Rantmas to All

“Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you’re the Charlie Browniest.”—A Charlie Brown Christmas The Rant understands. You’re out there trying to maintain that holiday cheer while haunted by the never-ending doubt that you missed an online coupon that … Continued

Omnibus Rant

The Rant ponders the following: I. Are the hosts/judges/widespread panic panelists of The Masked Singer given a drug that renders them ignorant of how the show works each week? Because unless Donnie Wahlberg is the greatest acting coach since Stanislavski, … Continued