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The Cleveland Browns will (NOT) be Great
Back on September 12, 2021, cleveland.com's 7 top writers unanimously predicted a winning season for the Cleveland Browns. You see those...

Fred
Jan 9, 20221 min read


Highway 50 and There's Nobody There
Both loyal readers of Beacon of Speech know our affinity for the Dead Kennedys. I saw some art on the internet today that reminded me of...

Fred
Jan 8, 20221 min read


Drudge Repercussions
Deep, deep in the Drudge Report Archives, you'll find a secret. If you return to the Drudge Report on January 5, 2021 at Noon, these...

Fred
Jan 5, 20223 min read


Secret Teenage Rebellion III -or- Chipotle's Meltdown
Deep in the heart of my independent film Blasphemers, one of the characters cracked a joke about being served by teenage drug addicts at...

Fred
Jan 4, 20222 min read


137 Shots -or- Martin Luther King Jr. Was Right
There is a documentary on Netflix called 137 Shots which documents the deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams at the hands of the...

Fred
Jan 2, 202212 min read


Peter Brown Memorial Rankings (2022)
This is the annual rankings of the sports talkers in the Cleveland Market. 1. Les Levine - 92.3 The Fan For the past 5 years, Les Levine...

Fred
Jan 1, 20224 min read


Matrix 4 Review: The Spark is Back
Matrix 4 was awesome! Period. No spoilers here. Keanu Reeves? Awesome. Carrie-Anne Moss? Awesome. Lana Wachowski? Fantastic job. But our...

Fred
Dec 28, 20213 min read


Greta Van Fleet vs Buckethead
Greta Van Fleet is currently low on my listening list. It's not that they're bad, they're not, they're fine. It's just.....I can't put my...

Fred
Dec 26, 20212 min read


Just a Reminder: Gary Bettman Loves Money, Gary Bettman Does Not Love Hockey
Earlier this week, the news broke that Gary Bettman was pulling NHL players out of the Olympics. His excuse? Covid. He was pulling the...

Fred
Dec 25, 20219 min read


Celebrity Relationship Problems
Random opinions about gossip that is none of my business: I just read, like, the 100th article about Kurt Cobain's genius. I am not...

Fred
Dec 21, 20213 min read


Biological Warfare and Mark Davis
I like Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis, I do. But when I see him on TV with his bowl haircut, I imagine him going to NFL Owners...

Fred
Dec 20, 20212 min read


Should I Believe Urban Meyer? (III)
Editor's Note: This article is going to break the record for swearing on our site. Be forewarned. Just this past January, we doubted the...

Fred
Dec 17, 20214 min read


CNN's Relentless Far Left Propaganda
Yesterday I read this story at CNN: I'm a Transgender Woman in America. I Shouldn't Have to Live in Fear. The author, Jennifer Williams,...

Fred
Dec 16, 20213 min read


Sabrina Parr...That Name Sounds Familiar
Around the year 2010 or so, the best Sports Talk Show in Cleveland was The Really Big Show with Tony Rizzo. It was Sports Talk gold....

Fred
Dec 13, 20212 min read


Beacon of Speech vs. Cleveland.com: The New Blood
Yesterday, cleveland.com came out with one of the most inexplicably soft editorials I have ever read: Frank Jackson's Legacy: Editorial...

Fred
Dec 12, 20213 min read


Secret Teenage Rebellion (One Year Later)
One year after I wrote about teenagers being done with their adult corporate bosses, my wife had a "straw that broke the camel's back"...

Fred
Dec 11, 20214 min read


Why Parma, Ohio Sucks
When I moved back to Ohio at the turn of the millennium, my beautiful bride and I moved to Parma, Ohio. We lived in the southeast section...

Fred
Dec 10, 20212 min read


Pay Attention to the Maxwell Case
Just remember kids, in America, in the year 2021, there is a propaganda war for the hearts and minds of the common citizen using the...

Fred
Dec 8, 20212 min read


Did I Find a Russian Bot?
I was scrolling through Facebook and came across a very interesting (propaganda) story at RT: Half of Ukraine's Army has now been...

Fred
Dec 6, 20214 min read


Why Don't Entertainers Perform for Prisoners Anymore?
I was watching the last episode of season 13's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia when the character Mac McDonald performed a powerful...

Fred
Dec 3, 20212 min read


Musical Depression with Fee Waybill
This week I was kicking around the internet, looking for some music to cheer me up, and I came across a small blurb "Fee Waybill released...

Fred
Dec 2, 20211 min read


LeBron is Absolutely Right (wink wink)
Last week, a couple of bad fans taunted LeBron James throughout the Lakers/Pacers game which the Lakers won in overtime. The fans clearly...

Fred
Dec 2, 20213 min read


Ryan Day, and Ryan Day Alone, Lost the OSU/Michigan Game Yesterday
Growing up in the John Cooper Era of Ohio State football, I learned that the way to beat Michigan, a rivalry game always played in the...

Fred
Nov 28, 20213 min read


Libertarian Confusion -or- Wearing a Mask is Okay
Back when I was a teenager, I had a smart ass friend who corrected every history teacher he ever had in this way: Vietnam wasn't a War,...

Fred
Nov 26, 20218 min read
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