Listen, I'm a grown-ass man, I shouldn't be watching so many cartoons-- But I'm ADDICTED, I watch 'em every day, and there are new episodes all summer long. The Simpsons (Disney+): Every month this summer, The Simpsons are dropping "streaming exclusive" episodes at Disney+. You think that's a bit gratuitous after 37 seasons? Next year The Simpsons Movie 2 comes out. President Curtis (HBO Max): For what it is, it's not too bad. What do I mean by that? Another spin-off from th

I am Babe Ruth, standing at home plate, aiming my bat at the bleachers and calling my shot. Yeah, I know it's Tom Behringer calling his shot in Major League, but no photo existed of The Babe calling his shot --- If he even did so at all. According to ESPN: Mauricio Pochettino Signs New Deal to Remain as USMNT Manager - Pochettino's Contract runs through the end of the 2030 World Cup. We 100% guarantee that Pochettino will be managing a club team in Europe to begin the 2027 se

Editor's Note: Working Title: Two Pet Peeves, Mixed Into One Nauseating Flavor In the last 2 days, I have seen, at minimum, 6 different ads for this new Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream flavor. I am not going to try the Change the Whirled Ice Cream, not because of its politics, but because it doesn't sound like something I would like. Let me be clear though, I do not like Colin Kaepernick: Colin Kaepernick Does Not Love Football (2017) Colin Kaepernick Does Not Love Football - Part

On March 3, 2023, according to Fact-Checker Politifact: "Later in the speech, Marjorie Taylor Greene added, “I will look at a camera and directly tell Zelenskyy, ‘You better leave your hands off of our sons and daughters, because they’re not dying over there.’” Why did Politifact have to fact-check Greene? Because the leader of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, never asked for troops, he asked for a mountain of money. Now if you're opposed to sending foreign aide to Ukraine, that

This photo was taken in Ceuta, Spain on Thursday. Now I'm not being glib, I am being dead serious. I want you to play Where's Waldo? I want you to zoom in on the picture until it is blurry and tell me: Where is the Female? Hint: Look Under the Red Arrow Did you find her? You can play the same game: France24 Al Jazeera BBC Univision CBC I kept seeing the number of immigrants in this wave as 60,000. Why is it important that the number of women and children is nearly non-existen

Some kid named Ethan Schaffer came up with this, using a Filter and pretending to be a dork who loves to review horror movies. (And vape.) Facebook Link Under Screen Shot His Horror Guy character is funnier than anything currently on Saturday Night Live. Facebook Link Under Screen Shot I have watched each one of these Reels at least a dozen times and laughed every single time. Facebook Link Under Screen Shot For all I know, Ethan Schaffer is making fun of ME. I don't care, he

I came across this meme at a local Facebook Group: First Response in the comments section? Jack P Russell, Ralph Perk, Carl Stokes, and Dennis Kucinich Uh, 4 politicians? I don't think so. Our 4 are in red: Bob Hope: Over 50 feature length films, over 50 USO Tours, over 50 albums and music compilations. First name is a slam dunk. Michael Stanley: Between August 25, 1982 and August 31, 1982, the Michael Stanley Band sold out Blossom Music Center 4 times in a row. That's a rec

Back in 2025, according to AI, "Juries in Connecticut and Texas ordered (Alex) Jones to pay roughly $1.4 billion to $1.5 billion in total damages after he claimed that the (Sandy Hook) tragedy that killed 20 children and six educators was staged." We do not like Alex Jones here at Beacon of Speech, not at all. Our on-the-record opinion is that Jones is nothing more than a snake oil salesman. When Alex Jones lost his website to the Onion, we laughed out loud. Jones losing his

I don't personally know Leland Nally, but he haunts my sleep. Why such an odd statement? Back in 2020, Leland Nally blew the lid off of the Epstein Files Controversy I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book. Here was the byline: What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls. I could argue that Nally's missive was the most important piece of investigative reporting over the last decade. What

Now I can understand why some youngins might be confused by 70 year old Keith Morris. The Circle Jerks' last album was over 30 years ago. Their "prime" was in the mid 1980's, over 40 years ago. No Circle Jerks albums were created to protest the current, or former, Trump Administration. But let's be clear, almost every punk band of the 1980's were a reactionary statement against Ronald Reagan's policies or the rise of the Moral Majority in America, and that group of artists in

Earlier this week, Donald Trump, in yet another stream-of-conscious moment, blurted out that LeBron James was "maybe a racist." What was Trump's context for such a strong statement? From the BBC: "When asked whether Jordan or James was the "best ever", Trump said: "Michael Jordan is a guy that's a friend of mine. I play golf with him. He's a really good guy. I think LeBron is, maybe he's a racist, but maybe he doesn't like Trump. I don't know. I only like people that like me,

I'm very depressed tonight, Sick of it All's lead singer Lou Koller died earlier today at age 59. Here are some professional eulogies: Rolling Stone Revolver The Economic Times (?) Punk News The Mosh Network But mine will be simpler and more personal. If you go to the Dictionary and look up the term NEW YORK HARDCORE, there are no words simply this: Back in 1997, my friend Aaron loaned me a copy of Sick of it All's Built to Last. It was awesome, and I quickly went out and bou

<sigh> I saw this idiot a few weeks back on some right-wing news site and swore I wouldn't write about her/them/they/whatever. But then I saw this meme of the same TikTok-er over at # TheHodgeTwins and I felt compelled to reply. I, personally, am a failure. I built this crappy little free speech website, but it's not real, it's a collection of ideas, some good, some bad. My Great-Grandfather built his own home by hand. My Grandfather didn't build his own house, but he could h

Marilyn Manson was officially cancelled in 2021 by Rolling Stone Magazine. Back in 2024, we wrote Marilyn Manson as the Cockroach. Our angle? We were kind of surprised that Manson was trying to get up off the mat. We really thought he would just sort of drift away. Our money quote from that 2024 article: "I couldn't find one person willing to take up for Manson. His record label dropped him like a hot potato. His talent agency couldn't get rid of him fast enough. He now appea

Some smart-ass sent me Rolling Stone's 50 Songs for 50 States List over America's 250th Birthday weekend. The sender KNEW that Rolling Stone lists drive me crazy. So this is the game I would play using Rolling Stone's List as a template: I would scroll down the page and when each state came up on the screen, I would blurt out the song associated with said state. 46 out of 50 times, I either had a different answer than Rolling Stone, or no answer at all (sorry Delaware). I cha

Do you know why people want to drag Billionaires into the streets and beat them, Mussolini-Style? Because once you make so much money, you become consumed with making MORE money. The Story of the Magical Spigot All right kids, it's story time. As we have mentioned a few times before, we used to work at the mind-numbingly banal corporation, Iron Mountain. Why use the word "we?" Because Beacon of Speech co-founder Ted and I worked at the Mountain together and he can verify my a

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