Not necessarily needing to defend my use of the word "rants", I will anyway. When I consider the totality of the political writings of Chomsky that I have read, I consider them "rants'. I feel the same way about Robert Scheer, and I felt that way (on the other side) about Meir Kahane. Brainless on my part, maybe. But you haven't given me a reason to change my opinion with that 'ad hominim' attack.