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The Light

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Rappers delighted in him. His hustle was their soul food. So they championed his power moves. There was Ice-T. There was Phife Dawg. There was Kendrick Lamar. All revered him as a boss. For he controlled shit like the Fates. … Continued

Rant Neutrality

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The Rant realizes we should ratchet up the rantics, and the alliteration, because when net neutrality ends, and we can’t pay the toll for the digital Autobahn, our site will load slightly faster than a 1MB file on a dial-up … Continued

A Four Isms

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If today were yesterday What would tomorrow bring?   Why picture Shakespeare wearing Jordans And not picture Jordan reading Shakespeare?   Cambria never was a good font I use it because there are no windows in my office   Paragraph … Continued

Predetermined Rant

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The Rant recently beheld the following click-bait: “You Wont’ Believe Justin Bieber’s New Tattoo.” Oh, internet. Unless the Biebs had a Medieval allegory decrying the evils of usury with ink containing nanobots capable of animating the entire production, we had … Continued

Yours for Four Easy Rants

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant wants to review The Bradford Exchange Holiday Catalog, but first we have to address the baby monkey in the room. To wit, the Bradford Exchange Holiday Catalog contains a disturbing number of baby monkeys. Those … Continued

The Rant Gets T’d Up

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The Wednesday Pop Culture Rant is shocked, shocked to learn bribery has been occurring in college basketball. Actually, if you are shocked, The Rant suspects you fancy a version of the game played with peach baskets and the two-handed set … Continued

Deactivate

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While busily sending thoughts and prayers to those afflicted by tragedy and suffering And liking the meme that perfectly encapsulates my political position while devastating the opposiiton And hashtagging for the cause And putting the trolls in their place in … Continued

So Apocalyptic

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Let us run a thought experiment in which everything Evangelicals believe is actually true. Now let’s all set our secret decoder rings, aka The Book of Revelation, to see how this crazy world will all turn out. For those unfamiliar … Continued

Weighty Matters

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While traveling in England, our group stopped at the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Truly an immense construct, the main building alone was the size of a cathedral. Taking into account its crumbling outbuildings, it covered a goodly amount of space. … Continued

Baby Driver

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One night, Rhonda let me drive her car. Thirteen, and coming off a disastrous year in which my parents had gotten a divorce, an unheard of occurrence in my small, Baptist church, I’d struggled to find my way. But now … Continued