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Top 40 Stories Set to Song
1. Brandy by Looking Glass The Story of Brandy 2. The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicki Lawrence The Story of the Little Sister who Got Away With It. 3. Stuart by the Dead Milkmen The Story of What the Queers are Doing to the Soil 4. The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot The Story of the Good, Hardworking Men on the Edmund Fitzgerald 5. Lisa's Father by Alice Donut The Story of Poor Lisa 6. The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace The Story of an Ano
Fred
Dec 27, 20253 min read


Top 20 Comedy Albums of All Time
"Dying is Easy, Comedy is Hard" - Jesus I had an absolutely terrible idea for a Top 20 list: The Top 20 Comedy Albums of All Time No one listens to comedy albums anymore. Half the albums on the list below are problematic. The best comedy albums are from 50 years ago. So with that said, here you go. 20. Bobcat Goldthwaite - Meat Bob (1988) Problematic? Despite his Police Academy persona, Goldthwaite had a mostly non-controversial career . 19. David Cross - Shut Up, You Fuckin
Fred
Dec 1, 20254 min read


Announcing the Rolling Stone College Journalism Awards
This isn't an article, it is a time capsule. Today, November 20, 2025, Rolling Stone Magazine announced the Rolling Stone College Journalism Awards. What a bunch of crap. When I think of woke publications, Rolling Stone Magazine shoots to the top of the listen. They used to be the counter-culture, now they are corporate-culture, chock full of far-lefties. Because, apparently, I'm a figurative masochist, I only go to Rolling Stone to get angry. So with that being said, I can p
Fred
Nov 20, 20253 min read


A Modern American Treatise for the Unseen Citizen
Quietly, in response to the No Kings rallies, 90 year old Libertarian Ron Paul rolled out of bed and dropped this gem of an essay: It Didn't Start with Trump The money quote? " Federal agencies can also target presidents’ political enemies without a presidential order to do so being issued. Some ambitious and unscrupulous individuals will target a president’s enemies believing that this is an effective way to curry favor with the president or high-level administration offici
Fred
Oct 27, 20255 min read


Top 10 Cartoons That Lasted 1 Season or Less
10. Speed Buggy - (1973 - 16 Episodes) Teens having Scooby-Doo like adventures with their dune buggy... that is alive! (And voiced by the same guy that did Bugs Bunny.) Chances of a reboot? Speed Buggy has made many cameos over the past 50 years, but the chances of a reboot are slim. 9. Super Friends - (1973 - 16 Episodes) Your DC Comic favorites all having G-Rated adventures on ABC. Chances of a reboot? Between 1977-1985, Super Friends was rebooted or re-tooled 6 differe
Fred
Oct 20, 20253 min read


Dr. Demento's Final Top 100 List
We love Dr. Demento here at Beacon of Speech. At first, we did the Top 10 Covers of Songs on the Dr. Demento Show . Then we wrote about our Top 25 Songs That Were Played on the Dr. Demento Show . Then we expanded the concept out to the Top 100 Novelty Songs of All Time . But we are not Novelty Record experts, we are free speech stalwarts. The greatest champion of Novelty Music, Dr. Demento, retired this past weekend after 55 years on the air. On his last show, he created his
Fred
Oct 16, 20254 min read
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