"The Rant" by Tom Degan

Tom Degan  1958-2023 To all Tom’s faithful readers of the Rant, we are sad to announce that he passed away on December 7th, 2023. Thank you ...

  This is my first posting on this site in well over a month. To be honest with, the very prospect of The Donald being returned to office in...

  "The Chicken McNuggets have come home to roost" Jimmy Kimmel There cannot be so-much as a molecule of doubt: At this precarious ...

  Cassidy I used to speculate that back in the not-too-Fabulous-Fifties, while Joe McCarthy was stumbling around the country doing so much d...

  I wanted to write this on the 28th 0f August, the sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington. Given the heat wave that most of the co...

Pissing off the Far Right since June of 2006 What you are about to read are a collection of unrelated observations that I had scribbled in m...

Mugshot of the former president of the United States Yesterday was a ripe day for schadenfreude. Donald J. Trump, the former president of th...

"IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I'M COMING AFTER YOU." Donald J. Trump, 8/4/23 Full disclosure: I committed a felony - once. The year was...

It's almost impossible for me to fathom how -  nearly a quarter of the way into the twenty-first century  - we're having this idioti...

  Fiorello LaGuardia T hese must be tormented times for Rudolph Giuliani. Can you imagine? I know he's thinking to himself: If only I ha...

  Joe Biden's attempt to redeem the debts of millions of college students this week was torpedoed by the conservative-controlled Supreme...

  I've got to start this off by telling you that I think that Randy Rainbow is the best thing to happen to American comedy since Lenny B...