Beacon of Speech is a free speech website, but we aren't really experts on many things. One of the few things that we ARE experts on is the infrastructure of Taco Bell , having worked at multiple locations from 1987-2000, from lowly dishwasher up to Store Manager. I worked at both franchise stores and corporate stores, across multiple states. Somewhere, deep in the Taco Bell archives, my name is etched in with the Mankato Team for Store of the Year honors in Minnesota, I th

Editor's Note: Also known as the Poison Dart Frog You ever go to the local zoo and in a dark corner, you see a heated terrarium with a humidifier and a handful of small, brightly colored frogs inside? Chances are, you saw the Ecuadorian (Poison) Dart Frog Display. Now, if you're a kid, you're mesmerized by the bright colors. If you're an adult, you wonder to yourself, "is it really a good idea to have poison frogs at eye level with little kids?" It took me about 5 seconds to

At my day job, I noticed our new mechanic had a Mushroomhead tattoo. A Cool Tattoo I asked him if he was following the Mushroomhead Drama, he said "nah, I used to like them when I was younger, not so much anymore." Dude is like 25. So I will tell you, the reader, what I passed on telling him: Mushroomhead I: Founded in 1993 as an 8-piece band, Mushroomhead has ballooned to 10 members. Not the same members, mind you, there are now 2 dozen Mushroomhead alumni, but 9 newer music

Congressional Democrats (and Massie) - Where are the Pedophiles? Republican Bondi - The Dow is over 50,000! Former Barack Obama Advisor, Kathy Ruemmler, resigns after it is released that she considered Jeffrey Epstein her " older brother ." Barack Obama - THERE ARE ALIENS!!! If you’re a true news junkie, Whatfinger News is your fix—more news, more sources, and zero Big Tech censorship.

Last year, Sharon Osbourne set up a benefit concert for her husband's last performance, the Back to the Beginning Show . She claimed all profits were going to local Birmingham, England Charites. I really wanted to watch Ozzy's last show, so I went to YouTube, couldn't find it. Went to Hulu, couldn't find it. Went to Prime Video, couldn't find it. Quickly shifted gears and googled it: On sale at a Private Streaming Service for $30 . I wasn't paying $30 to Sharon Osbourne for a

Alice Donut is back this weekend, this time at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco . This will only be their 5th and 6th shows over the past 15 years. Last night, they played a cross section of hits, tonight they promise to play their seminal album Untidy Suicides of Your Degenerate Children in its entirety. Then the 2-day residency is over. This was a promo shot from their rehearsal on Thursday. Editor's Note: Why such a short blurb for such a great band? Because

Today, Donald Trump took another run at Thomas Massie: Almost that whole post is wrong. We are going to break it down, line by line. Pam Bondi.....was Fantastic at yesterday's Hearing: No, no she wasn't. Let's start with the very basic tenets of law. I never went to law school, but even I know that you redact the victims' names, which didn't always happen in the file dump, and don't redact your boss or his family's names just because you like them. President Trump has been 10

I was scrolling through music news today and came across this gem: <<RECORD SCRATCH>> Uh, no. Now I like Dee Snider, he's quite a character. But, no, his band did not invent Speed Metal. And I like Twisted Sister, in my parents' basement are both Stay Hungry and Come Out and Play. But Twisted Sister is one of the bands that I "outgrew." An Underrated Classic Twisted Sister itself, though, was a bit of a novelty, they seemingly never reached the gravitas, or longevity, of the

Editor's Note: The working title of this article was Don't Let the Doorknob Hit You in the Ass. Earlier today, Cleveland Brown's Tight End David Njoku announced on social media that he was leaving the team in free agency: Many Cleveland Publications were quick to point out that David Njoku was second, statistically, only to Hall of Famer Ozzy Newsome- Stop right there. For 9 seasons, David Njoku was fools gold. This was an average game for David Njoku: 2 great catches, 1 cat

You remember Yevgeny Prigozhin, he was the leader of the Vladimir Putin sponsored Wagner Group . Still not ringing any bells? He was the one who led the rebellion against Putin, then died in a "mysterious plane crash." Editor's Note: Mysterious plane crash is not in quotations because I quoted anyone. It's because all the leaders of the Wagner Group died when their plane blew up. Putin claimed that the plane exploded because the members of the Wagner Group were on drugs and/o

Go to this website: https://www.justice.gov/epstein Answer the Question: Are you a Human? Answer the Question: Are you 18 or Older? There is a short disclaimer, but once you scroll down, there is a search bar that says: Search Full Epstein Library Type in the Politician of your choice and... Voilà You are now a citizen reporter. My wife keeps saying that she wants to see the Epstein Files for herself. I told her she could do that right now, but it's 3 million or so pages long

Back in 1992, the sketch comedy show In Living Colour decided to counter-program against the Super Bowl's crappy CBS Winter Spectacular Half Time Show. Fox's In Living Colour stole 25 million viewers from that game. The Super Bowl was so shocked by the viewer loss, some citations said Fox actually had higher ratings than CBS for those 12 minutes, that they were forced to make changes. 2 of the most radical changes were instituted just a year later. In 1993, the Super Bowl H

President Trump Deletes Racist Video From Truth Social After Outrage: That was the headline at every news agency today. ABC News NBC News CBS News CNN Drudge Report / X The video in question? Former President Barack Obama and his wife are portrayed as monkeys. Donald Trump really has no shame, he's a cartoon caricature of himself. He should know better, but he just doesn't. We condemn the President's antics. This is absurd. This is farcical. This is insanity. But deeper in th

In 1998, the Drudge Report broke the story of the Monica Lewinski Scandal. Almost immediately, the website went from a political insider destination, to a go-to source for Right-Leaning News. When I started Beacon of Speech in 2016, we were intrigued by the Drudge Report's business model. Many on the Left were either trying to ban the site or wanted to charge them for sharing links. But I couldn't understand how you could ban a site that was nothing but links. As a free speec

This story seems to be streaming across platforms: Kid Rock’s Song about Loving Underage Girls Resurfaces Ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl Show Honestly, to say that Kid Rock should be canceled based off of the fact that he wrote a song about young girls years ago, but now it's the Age of Epstein, is not really fair. Almost every rock star in the history of the Rock Genre has written a song about young girls. Here are 10 that stuck out from my memory (with an assist from Reddit ): L

Back on January 13, 2026 , ESPN's Dan Graziano predicted who would fill the 9 (eventually 10) coaching vacancies in the NFL. All I did was cut and paste the predictions, then I added 2 Comments: I said Robert Saleh to the Raiders absolutely would not happen. They wanted a "name" coach. I said Chris Shula to the Dolphins would be a slam dunk. Directly from ESPN: Arizona: Klint Kubiak Atlanta: John Harbaugh Baltimore: Kevin Stefanski Cleveland: Mike McDaniel Las Vegas: Robert

Do you know what happens to radical politicians in Europe? People hit them in the face with pies. They smash eggs on their bald domes. They throw shoes at them. So earlier this week, some pinhead sprayed.... This is so absurd, I have to go back and look it up again- APPLE CIDER VINEGAR on Congressperson Ilhan Omar. Now don't get me wrong, you shouldn't do that, but every single angle was so weird. Donald Trump chirped that he thought it was a false flag , as did nearly ev

I'm sorry, I read the above blurb at Consequence of Sound, at least, 20 times. Limp Bizkit was the band that people loved to hate. But I always liked Wes Borland, I liked the musical chances that he took outside of Limp Bizkit. But I'm not a Limp Bizkit fan. I remember standing in the hot sun and watching the band perform on the small stage at Warped Tour 97. I was a fan of DJ Lethal and wanted to check out his "new" band. I was not impressed and was glad I would never hear

If you passed 4th grade history, you know that America fought the Revolutionary War because they didn't want to pay taxes to that arrogant bastard King George III. But that was over 200 years ago. Who are the Kings today? If you're a Democrat, you are screaming that Donald Trump is a King/Nazi Hybrid, slaughtering people in the streets. If you're a Republican, you are screaming that Immigrants are massacring American Citizens on mass transit. The "King" is the "deep state" t

As I was doing some site cleanup, I came across some of my old articles about Amoye Favour. I wondered aloud to myself, "I wonder if he/it/they are still around?" Not only is Amoye Favour still around, but he/it/they just published an article earlier this week! 10 Metal Musicians with Asperger's Syndrome Let's cut to the chase and grade Favour's 10 Choices: Craig Nicolls - Lead singer of the Vines? Not Metal. Marty Balin - Member of the Jefferson Airplane? Not one ounce of

I have rarely been so mad that I can't write, but today is one of those days. Former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter rolled out of bed and dropped this quote on the world: That's it. If you asked me: Who was the most corrupt administrator in all of Modern Sports? Not in the NFL, not in the Premier League, not in the NBA, but IN ALL OF SPORTS , I would probably say Sepp Blatter. Between 2018's World Cup in Russia and 2022's World Cup in Qatar, which were awarded their tournaments a dec

This will be a very short article, mostly for my edification. This was the AP Top 25 in College Football Poll after the end of the regular season. After the season ended, the Miami Hurricanes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish finished with the same record with very similar credentials for the college football playoffs. As in any sport, there are tie-breaker rules for evenly matched teams. So when push came to shove for the last at-large playoff spot, the committee chose the M

I watched Alex Honnold's Netflix Special: Skyscraper Live . I liked the special, it was good TV, like Evel Knievel on ABC Sports. But the commentators stressed, like a dozen times, how dangerous the climb was and that Honnold had a wife and kids. They HINTED that it was irresponsible to climb that building. Many viewers took to the internet and didn't hint at that position, they flat out said it. Let me ask you: What is better for your kids? Climbing a mountain for no money o

At a local bar, on the edge of Baldwin Wallace College, on Wednesday, January 22, 2026, the newly formed band International Threat, played a quick 3 song set as the snow lightly fell outside. Liam, Alex, Jimmy, and Pat met through similar channels out of the ashes of the former college radio station WCSB . Slightly off-topic, WCSB is (tentatively) slated to return as internet station XCSB in the Spring. International Threat's first playlist: Seventeen by Peach Pit Just Like H