Way, way back in 2021, we wrote an article with the headline #FreeBritney . We are currently not fans, nor have ever been fans, of Britney Spears, but I keep seeing articles that she should be returned to her conservatorship. That should not happen. "In January of 2008, Britney Spears was put on an involuntary psychiatric hold and was released after a few days under the condition that she enter a conservatorship run by her Father. He was worried that she was about to become a

Came across the website deathbyclawd.com this afternoon. What does Death by Claude do? It judges your website. And when I say "it," I mean AI. It was a brutal review, but in the style of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast . # SKILL: Beacon of Speech Replacement ## Purpose Provide a platform for passionate free speech commentary that both sides of the political spectrum will hate equally. ## Instructions - When the user wants to publish an opinion, accept their text and forma

Just last week, I wrote about my favorite (Facebook) Reels . The list leaned heavily into sports and comedy, and, despite Beacon of Speech being a free speech website, we follow no news-related Reels. Imagine my surprise when a Tucker Carlson Reel came up. Before I could skip it, the Reel began to play. His guest? Professor Jiang and his " Greater Israel Project ." Wow. It is rare that I have seen such a steaming pile of combustible garbage at any time in my life. If you beli

Just a reminder, we are a libertarian-leaning, free speech website at Beacon of Speech. Many problems in America stem from one simple concept: In the gray areas between the Police, which represent the interests of the government, and the Citizen, which is basically you and me, the Constitution enumerates the rights of the Citizen. Now don't get me wrong, when career-criminals get off with light sentences, it is maddening, I admit that. But many in the Law and Order Camp err

For demonstrative purposes, we are only going back to the year 1999, the year the Cleveland Browns were "re-born." Let's review the worst trades in sports and the people who made them. MLB: According to the Bleacher Report , the Florida Marlins sending Miguel Cabrera to Detroit in 2007 was the worst trade in baseball since the year 1999. The trade was spearheaded by Larry Beinfest, who was promoted from GM to President of Operations just a few months earlier. In Beinfest's

Back in 2023, Marjorie Taylor Greene grabbed anyone who would listen and screamed " Volodymyr Zelensky Wants Our Sons and Daughters to Die in Ukraine ." Now that wasn't true, but politicians don't always tell the truth. Are there any American Troops in Ukraine today? There are not. But we did have a response to MTG in real time back in 2023 : "I am going to go out on a limb and say that NONE of Marjorie Taylor Greene's three children are going to die in the armed services, no

We are not the cool kids here at Beacon of Speech. BOS is on Facebook and Bluesky, that is it. Let me re-iterate, no Snapchat, no Instagram, no TikTok, no X. But lately, we have been turning to Facebook Reels for more and more entertainment options. Which is kind of funny, seeing that Reels is seemingly mostly re-runs of Instagram or X content. With that being said, these were my Top 10 content creators this week: Jim Rome : Rome has been the best talk-radio sports host in th

Listen, there's no getting around the fact that Donald Trump is not a great president, especially the second time around. But as I read, almost daily, that Trump is everything from a Fascist Overlord to the Anti-Christ, everyone gives Donald Trump way too much credit for being some sort of evil genius. What is happening in America is that we are living The Celebrity Apprentice , for better or for worse, in real time. The Apprentice: Season 16 Episode I: The Voters Fire Kamala

Last night I turned on the Tacoma Stars/Baltimore Blast MASL game on Amazon. It was 4-4 at half, so I figured I'd get a good game. I was wrong. As I wrote in the foreground, the game played in the background. The Blast piled goal upon goal on the Stars. With about 30 seconds left in the game, I had long since tuned out as the Blast were up 10-4. With 2 seconds left in regulation, # 15 on Tacoma appeared to swing on the Blast Defender. Both refs charged into the fracas as the

We are under no delusions as to our place in the universe at Beacon of Speech, we are a low-end, libertarian-leaning blog. We were founded out of the ashes of the Post Industrial Midwest. Post-Industrial Wasteland Chris Quinn , on the other hand, is very delusional about his lot in life. Officially founded in 1842, The Cleveland Plain Dealer has survived World Wars and Urban Upheaval. In 1920, Cleveland was the 5th largest city in the United States of America and the city was

A few weeks back, Iran's Minister of Sports said that there was " no way " Iran's National Soccer could play in America for the World Cup. Then yesterday, American President Donald Trump said that the Iranians were more than " welcome " to play in the World Cup, but it would be "inappropriate" if they actually showed up. Then, today, the Iranian team itself put out this statement: " No one can exclude " us from participating. If I was on the Iranian National Team, I would re

Last week, Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan made some controversial comments when he said " they purposely dialed down rock music " in the late 1990's. I actually agree with Corgan in this respect, I don't agree with who 'they' are, but around the turn of the millennium, American culture started to equate Rock with Toxic Masculinity. In 1999, one of the most popular Rock artists in America was the Stone Temple Pilots . If you were a guy, leader singer Scott Weiland

Jesse Jackson passed away earlier this week, and I want to be clear, right from the start, no one questions Jackson's contributions to the Civil Right Movement. No one. But, as happens with many a great American, his legacy gets a bit dicey after his entrance into politics. What's my specific problem with Jackson? Politics is not the Civil Rights Movement. In 1984, Jesse Jackson ran for President of the United States for the first time and came in a very respectable 3rd in th

Bomb Iran by Vince Vance and the Valients First of all, the song above is one of my favorite music parodies of all time. I think I've written, like, 5 articles with the song as an Easter Egg. So let's be clear, clear as muddy pond water. Beacon of Speech is a Libertarian-leaning website. For the Record, we do not support the bombing of any other country. We should not be in the war business. But.... Me, as Trump bombs the shit out of Iran. If you asked me in 2025 , "if you ha

Not sure what exactly my problem has been, but for some reason I've been on a classic Hanna-Barbera binge. I have specifically been watching a lot of Yogi Bear lately. And not Yogi's Gang , the cartoon that fought cultural and ecological enemies in the 70's, but the original 60's Yogi Bear, which captured the zeitgeist of its era to perfection. Over at the Daily Star, there's a story promoting the new movie Pinocchio . Pinocchio is not a nice young puppet who dreams of bei

Editor's Note: I want to be clear, when I played high school soccer, I wasn't very good. But the lessons imparted to me lasted a lifetime. I still love soccer. At the beginning of my Senior year, our High School Soccer team was projected out to be one of the best in the county. We had 5 kids that were the cornerstones of our team. Unfortunately, each one of the 5 kids' parents were born in different countries: Danilo - Serbian Gerald - German Joe - Russian Kevin - Am eri can

Human zombie Kelly Osbourne is lashing out against a very unforgiving public due to negative comments made about her at the BRIT Awards: Hmm, she is going through a lot. Very displeased about being dropped from the Return of the Living Dead reboot for looking too realistic. Upset that it was reported that she was engaged to the dead member of Slipknot. E! invited her back to the network, but only to be a guest on Botched! Was voted "least talented" Osbourne sibling, while J

An arbitrator found that the report cards violated the collective bargaining agreement by " disparaging NFL clubs and individuals ." - ESPN Last month, the NFL banned the NFLPA from publishing NFL Report Cards. Why? More than any other league in the United States, the NFL is all about parity. When the NFL pie is split, more or less, 32 equal ways, teams are looking for every advantage to sign free agents when the money is equal. We are going to focus on only 2 categories for

So let me get this straight, for my own mental health. On June 11, 2025, even before the broadcast of Season 3 of the cult-cartoon hit Smiling Friends aired, Adult Swim picked up the series for Seasons 4 & 5 . Adult Swim was happy, creators Michael Cusack and Zach Handel were happy, and the fans were happy. On October 5, 2025, Season 3 premiered to rave reviews . That same week it was announced that Cusack and Handel were creating their own cartoon production studio: Zam St

According to the Trump Resistance Movement : Sorry for the blurry meme. Because the image didn't download cleanly, here's the quote: "Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that's he's dead, you never, ever, hear about him. No one mentions anything he did, because what he did had no value. It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture, nothing of lasting value. He just made anger, every day, blooming and fading like a fart, then he died, and was instantly replaced by a

I came across this list on Facebook and thought to myself, "this isn't a terrible list.... Then I thought for a few minutes and said to myself, "wait a minute, this is a terrible list." I am going to be slow and methodical. First of all, why was Forbes Magazine coming out with the list of Top Rock Bands of all time? Is the list based off of money generated or albums sold? Nope, strictly on quality. We are huge fans of Punk and Metal. With that being said, the category is Top

Man, I never thought I'd write this article. As a Libertarian-leaning website, we despise Hillary Rodham Clinton, Queen of American Partisan Politics. But as her face is plastered across every single news website in America in relation to the Epstein Files this evening, she is getting hammered on social media for claiming she never met Jeffrey Epstein. I'll tell you what, I believe her. Forget everything you know about HRC. Everything. At her core, she is a long-time, married

I want to be crystal clear, I like Johnny Knoxville, I do. He has a real devilish charm about him. And I like the Jackass Movie Franchise. I'm not some high-brow snob, talking about the opera or the films of Federico Fellini. I liked the TV series and watched all the Jackass movies, even the .5 ones. Give me low-brow humor all day long. My grandkids will talk about Jackass the way I wax poetically about the 3 Stooges . But Alex Morris, in her interview with Johnny Knoxville

Circa 2001 Earlier this week, Prince Andrew was arrested, and then freed, on (the British equivalent of) bail. Prince Andrew is not rotting in some English Dungeon, he is at his estate, right now, lawyering up. The only living person in jail related to the Epstein Case is Giselle Maxwell. But I can't help but think any arrests beyond this point are diluted justice. The above photo is 25 years old and Virginia Giuffre is dead. By all accounts, she had a rough life and a contro