Reply #21: I agree --

[snot]

E.g., rants too often seem to garner more attention than opportunities to take useful action.

E.g., apparently DU no longer has a functional media blaster; at any rate, not one person responded to my query about it at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=31249&mesg_id=31249 . (Do most DU'er's now even know what a media blaster is?)

I think of Hamlet's
"Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
A scullion!"

We all need to vent, but as a supplement to, not in replacement of, action.