1. A rant is when someone sounds off about a topic. They snap and express their feelings in a emotional sate that grabs the attention of people around them. It is usually a response or complaint to something. The baseball example qualifies because a sports writer was responding to a decision by Joe Torre in a way that was filled with some anger.
2. The rant has changed in the age of the Web by being in writing. It always used to be oral but now people can write down their rants. Anyone can lash out against anything.
3. Yes this essay is categorized and gives the early history of the rant. It then switches to how it was changed over the years and is now on the web. Examples like the baseball rant, 17th century rant, and subway rant are used to help explain their point.
4. “The Web is often rightly criticized by the guardians of high culture for encouraging bilious discourse and sloppy writing, with cruel message-board postings and bloggers attacking one another at the slightest provocation.” This shows the history of how rants are now not all oral but in writing and are still filled with emotion.
5. Rants are good. They allow us to express our thoughts and feelings.
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