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

This is going to be one of the shortest Beacon of Speech articles ever. When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world was aghast. One sovereign nation invading another sovereign nation was not only against the United Nations Charter, it was a clear violations of the Budapest Memorandum. From Harvard: "On December 5, 1994, leaders of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation met in Budapest, Hungary, to pledge security assurances to Ukraine in

This article is written with anger and a gnashing of teeth. Landon Donovan, when he was 26 years, played 25 games for Major League Soccer. And that's it. Across his entire career, Donovan averaged 20-25 games a year in MLS. He played 22 total games in the Premier League and 16 in the Bundesliga, FOR HIS CAREER. The most games Donovan ever played in a calendar year for his career was 37 in the 2014 season. When Donovan retired at age 36, he had played 501 games as a profession

Before the World Cup started, we predicted the worst 2 teams in the tournament. 48th (Last): Haiti 47th: Qatar Now, believe it or not, we're not bullies at Beacon of Speech. We rooted for Haiti because their country is one step above anarchy and their soccer program doesn't have any resources. They exist through grit and the love of the game. Qatar, on the other hand, they are what's wrong with soccer. Now we still don't know who's going to win the 2026 World Cup, but we can

United States 4 - Paraguay 1 Almost a perfect game, any criticisms would be ticky-tacky. Entertaining, and attacking, style of soccer, just about from start to finish. United States 2 - Australia 0 Another impressive performance, another good win. You may not have needed Christian Pulisic today, but you're going to need him if you expect to advance to the quarterfinals, or dare I dream, the semifinals. Turkey 3 - Untied States 2 The United States mostly dictated play and had

This whole Taylor Swift Wedding-Thing has me utterly confused. At first, I was wondering why, at the beginning of the week, word was leaking out that Taylor Swift was getting married at Madison Square Garden. Either she was getting married there, or she wasn't. I mean, there had to be rental fees and permits and such. Around Wednesday, I think it was the NYPD, confirmed that they were asked to work an event at Madison Square Garden, but I don't believe they acknowledged it wa

Ever since 2017, Donald Trump has been accused of being a puppet of Russian Leader Vladimir Putin. What happened in 2017? Buzzfeed News reported on the Russian Dossier, a launching point document to see if Donald Trump enjoyed "Golden Showers" from Female, Russian Spies. Did we believe the allegations at Beacon of Speech? No. But the Mainstream Media WANTED to believe the allegations, though no actual facts were presented in the Dossier. For the next decade, the press specula

Christ has Died, Christ is Risen, Christ will Come Again. According to AI, "that is the core summary of Christianity." But all day today I was obsessed with the logistics of Jesus actually returning. .Question 1: How does Jesus get here? Say Jesus floats down from heaven, as soon as he gets a couple of hundred feet from the Earth, if he returns anywhere in the First World, people are already recording that on their cell phones. By the time his feet hit the ground, there's a

Back in the years 2017-2018 Julie K Brown of the Miami Herald "exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s systematic abuse of young women, the justice system that protected him, and, over time, his powerful network of associates and enablers." Where did I get that quote from? The Pulitzer Prizes. What year did she win that Pulitzer? In 2026, almost a decade after the story broke. Why did the agenda-pushing Pulitzers wait a decade to recognize Brown's excellence? Because it took almost 10 year

Back in 2019, Liberal writer Michael Tomasky wrote this 'amazing' piece (Joe Biden is) Roadkill If He Stays in the Middle Lane. Tomasky's angle? No "moderate" could win for the Democrats. If they wanted to win the 2020 Presidential Election, they had to nominate Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, those two candidates energized the base. Seven years later, the USA Today's Rex Huppke has nearly the identical message: No "moderate" can win for the Democrats 2028, they need to n

Cape Verde is easily the best success story of this World Cup. Standing toe-to-toe with favorites-to-win Spain to earn a 0-0 tie, then coming in second above favorites-to-advance Uruguay and Saudi Arabia, the tiny African Nation proved nearly all the prognosticators, and the bettors, wrong. Now we pick on Qatar all the time that they're not very good at soccer, but Cape Verde over neighboring Saudi Arabia in their Group was historically stunning. Saudi Arabia, for the last ge

Editor's Note: Working Title was Jamele Hill: Retard We are not fans of Jamele Hill here at Beacon of Speech, not one bit. We don't like her extreme-liberal based journalism, we don't like her core race-baiting philosophy. But as a free speech website, we begrudgingly gave her the benefit of the doubt that she was, at the very minimum, semi-educated, seeing that she now works at The Atlantic. But this might be the stupidest thing I've read on the internet since Covid started:

The year 2000 was 26 years ago. I mean, that's just basic math. Currently, my kids are only aware of music through Spotify, YouTube, or old CD's that are found in the basement. Terrestrial radio doesn't even exist for them, yet Rolling Stone, the print equivalent of radio, continues to angle itself as the arbiter of youth culture....which it clearly is not. In 2023, Rolling Stone came out with a Top 100 Metal Songs of All Time list. 88 of the 100 songs were from before the ye

I simply typed the word NEWS in the Google Search Bar: Hmm, that's very curious on a number of levels. Level I: I cut the cord. At our home, we have streaming options and a crappy antenna. I should buy a better antenna? This is our FIFTH crappy antenna, each one more expensive than the last, but works EXACTLY the same. The WVIZ Channel 25 feed come through.... most of the time. For local news options, we leave the stations set at WKYC Channel 3 or WEWS Channel 5. Not because

In Season Four, Episode Five of [adult swim]'s Rick and Morty, it was clearly stated that on June 21, 2026 there was going to be a Snake Apocalypse. The episode, titled Rattlestar Ricklactica and released on December 15, 2019, spoke of the day that 17 billion snake lives ended. Today is that day.

So, very long story short. We funded the Wuhan Lab. The yocals in China let a genetically engineered virus escape their lab. A lab with the same safety protocols as an average American Fast Food Restaurant. Of course there was no organic "wet market" origin in Wuhan, there would have been genetic markers. That also explains the silence of the official entities in China and America. In China, they were embarrassed that they were tools of the American Government. In America, th

That's it. That's the article. I reposted it with the source underneath. Arguably the best meme I've ever seen. While you're here, here's some songs about hell if you want to listen to 'em: Hell by Squirrel Nut Zippers Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson In Hell I'll Be in Good Company by The Dead South Robot Hell by the Futurama Boys Choir Nature Trail to Hell in 3D by Weird Al Yankovic Life in Hell by NoMeansNo Burn in Hell by Twisted Sister ..... ..... I mean, rig