I’ll tell you now, I love swearing for its own sake. But what I love even more is when someone as cool and rational as DanJ goes completely off. It’s something akin to watching a perfectly played chess match end when one player shoots the opposing king at checkmate with a rocket-propelled grenade. It’s glorious in its overkill.
It seems his recent encounters with religious folks, and the greater thread on the interwebs about civility when discussing religion vis-a-vis science, has finally come to a head and Dan, understandably, snaps, having been told he’s going to hell and is evil and sinful just once too many. And what a thing of beauty this rant is! Not only is it pure, unvarnished truth, but it is as cathartic to read as I’m sure it was to write.
I liked it. The last part reminded me of that rant Chevy Chase went on when he found out he wasn’t getting a bonus in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Oh, I remember that well (though I hadn’t seen it in many years):
And it did feel good to write it. 🙂
“Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war”
One of the greatest rants ever. (And here I was expecting Clifton was going to take me to task for saying “vis-a-vis”.)
This thread is now about greatest rants ever. Post ’em if you got ’em!
Another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwTyAvu61bM
Can’t find a video, but found it on google books. Starts on page 187
http://books.google.ca/books?id=_N7YL_P_OSQC&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&dq=dennis+miller+deck+the+halls&source=bl&ots=FPZzwSg2Mu&sig=qA8ApZBmgt-wBwW2cg2W360FsWs&hl=en&ei=9s5LStTNDqCY8wT6tenyBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1