This is going to be one of our shortest articles ever. Georgia college football coach Kirby Smart, a few months back, was proposing that the SEC breakaway from the NCAA. His angle?: Wouldn't it be great if there were spectacular matchups like Georgia/Florida every single week? Smart is a myopian, unable to see the forest through the trees. From FoxNews "I’ve said this for a long time to our president, I’ve been a huge advocate that if we can’t find rules that everybody plays

We made our World Cup Predictions on June1. On June 5th, ESPN's Ryan O'Hanlon Predicted Every Game of the World Cup Below is the end of our Beacon of Speech article: World Cup Predictions. Winners in Red: First, there's a lot of games that, to me, are a coin flip, so if O'Hanlon flips the coin one way, and I flip it the other, I'm not going to dwell on that. We are talking glaring differences. BOS has Qatar 47th and out early. ESPN has Qatar beating Bosnia and being right on

Back when I first started working at Iron Mountain Data Storage, our branch had about 1,000 customers. After 9/11, our customer base had swelled to 1,200 in and around the Cleveland, Ohio area. Physical data storage, for about 5 years between 2001 and 2006, was a product that sold itself. But slowly, around the year 2010, customers started to move their off site storage into the cloud and by 2016, the year I was terminated, customers were bolting for the doors. But after goin

The Rialto Theatre in the the Kenmore District of Akron hosted a 3-band showcase on Thursday Night. Modern Hubris played the middle slot with a lineup of, from left to right, Alex, Jimmy, Liam, and Aiden. (Pat is on leave, he will be back.) Modern Hubris Here was the setlist, originals in Red, covers in Black. I'll tell you what, the Rialto Theatre really is a perfect venue for a small local band that played their hearts out.

The editor of cleveland.com, Chris Quinn has rolled out with the very well researched: Our Sherwin-Williams Dilemma. Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V God Bless Chris Quinn for holding Sherwin-Williams' feet to the fire.... A century after the fact. From Bluesky Now I'm not saying I'm for lead paint, but I remember asking my Dad if lead paint was bad when I was a kid and he said "don't eat lead paint." My entire life I've known lead paint is bad (I am 57), thanks to my D

From The Bulwark: "SAM NEILL, WHO DIED AT AGE 78 this morning following a years-long battle with cancer, was an unlikely A-lister. Hailing from New Zealand and possessing the very British quality of appearing in just about anything that would keep him working, Neill had a sort of receding everyman quality that allowed him to play both the hunter and the hunted." At Beacon of Speech, Sam Neill was our hero. He was in two of our favorite movies, playing very, very different cha

My diet is terrible. I drink too much soda, I don't eat many greens, and, due to a history of kidney stones, I have cut nuts and fresh spinach from my personal menu. What is my only healthy habit? I usually eat a fiber-based cereal with lactose free milk. A few months back, I was at the grocery store with my wife and I asked her what Poppi was. Her reply, only half joking, was "it's healthy pop. You wouldn't like it." "Why wouldn't I like it?" I replied. "It helps your digest

Back in the year 2000, Darren Aronofsky directed the psychological drama Requiem for a Dream. It was an excellent movie, but it was dark and it was depressing. Very, very depressing. After viewing the movie, I saw an interview with Aronofsky and he claimed that Requiem wasn't a drama at all, it was a horror movie. He explained that the invisible villain was "addiction." As scary as any creature stalking its prey, the worst monster is the one you can't see, but you can feel it

From Beacon of Speech, in 2023: Donald Trump Could Change Politics For the Next Century. "Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that I hated the Republican Party, hated it with every fiber of my very being. You know what I could do about it? Absolutely nothing. Could I physically destroy it through domestic terrorism? Nope. There is no physical structure to vanquish the core of the GOP that would cause the party to cease to exist. Could I write a devasting series of artic