check the word 'rant' in the oed it is duly noted that quite a lot of people just trip over and through the infinite web to warp in and stumble onto this page and are shocked by the same 'rant' from one nishidani and raise the same cries of alarm all in delicious anonymity the aleatory visit the anonymous outcry of moral offense it has become a formulaic mode what the great curtius called a 'topos' but i don't think it will make the manuals of rhetorical gambits none edit