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Theodore John Conrad Won
You think I'm jaded today, wait 'til my next article comes out...... ..... ..... ..... ....., <sigh> ..... ..... ..... ....., lie, cheat,...

Fred
Nov 13, 20211 min read


Travis Scott Déjà Vu
As soon as the Travis Scott Astroworld tragedy unfolded, all I could think about was the Rolling Stones at Altamont (1969)... the Who in...

Fred
Nov 10, 20212 min read


Sports Savages? Wrong Again.
One of my favorite Sports related pages on Facebook is Fake SportsCenter. They talk a lot of smack and dance on the line. Their fault is...

Fred
Nov 9, 20211 min read


Rolling Stone Magazine: Old Hipsters with Early Onset Dementia, Waiting to Die
You know who's stupid? I am. I keep going to rollingstone.com, despite the fact that they suck and they barely write about music. With...

Fred
Nov 4, 20212 min read


Top Story in China vs Top Story in America
CNN 11/2/21 9:40 AM Drudge Report 11/2/21 9:40 AM Hmmm. Youngkin and McAuliffe is certainly an intriguing race in Virginia, but at the...

Fred
Nov 2, 20211 min read


Top 10 Ways the NFL is Not Like Slavery
Or, the alternate title, Colin Kaepernick Does Not Love Football (Part V). Why am I so bent out of shape about Colin Kaepernick? He,...

Fred
Oct 30, 20213 min read


Megan Rapinoe is Becoming What She Hates (Part II)
I saw a horrible article earlier this week which was picked up by CNN: FIFA 'deeply concerned' at social media footage of DR Congo's U-20...

Fred
Oct 27, 20213 min read


The Weather and Fox Broadcasting
If you asked me 5 years ago if we needed more Weather prediction options, I would have said "absolutely not." Today? I was mostly...

Fred
Oct 25, 20212 min read


Top 10 Alec Baldwin Rust Memes
Earlier in the week I spoke to Ted, my partner at Beacon of Speech, on the telephone. I told him there was a tornado headed for his...

Fred
Oct 23, 20211 min read


Lake Michigan Monster
Every once in a while, you find a little gem of a movie that you want to call your own. This weekend I stumbled upon the Lake Michigan...

Fred
Oct 18, 20211 min read


Kyrie Irving Does Not Want to Play Basketball. Period.
I do not care what your world view is on the Covid Vaccine. Brooklyn Nets' Kyrie Irving is not a Vaccine Martyr. Irving says he won't...

Fred
Oct 17, 20213 min read


Kevin Fallon is the Leader of the Left's Moral Majority
Back in the 1980's, there was a group called the Moral Majority, run by the late preacher Jerry Falwell Sr. I was not a fan of the Moral...

Fred
Oct 16, 20213 min read


In Defense of Jon Gruden
Let me be clear, Let me be concise, Jon Gruden should not have used those specific words that he wrote about Roger Goodell in those...

Fred
Oct 11, 20211 min read


Belichick's Last Year in New England? 2021
In 2020, we had some fun at the New England Patriots' expense: Robert Kraft: Massage Parlor Connoisseur, but the gist of that article...

Fred
Oct 11, 20214 min read


Ruining Season 6 of Rick and Morty
It is well established that we are Rick and Morty fans here at Beacon of Speech. What we aren't fans of is the constant hand wringing by...

Fred
Oct 10, 20212 min read


Rolling Stone Magazine is Run by Cowardly Douchebags
Some politically correct hack at the Daily Beast took a run at Norm McDonald a few years back, and I basically wrote Norm a love letter:...

Fred
Oct 9, 20212 min read


Send Your Kids to a Better School Than Duke University
When I was a kid, I remember people making fun of Gerald Ford's head injuries because he played at Michigan, a football school. I...

Fred
Oct 4, 20211 min read


Welcome Home Chen Qiushi
Back in February of 2020, citizen journalists in Wuhan, China were sounding the alarm about an unknown virus killing patients at the...

Fred
Oct 2, 20212 min read


The Difference Between a 14 Year Old Gas Huffer and Me?
Apparently nothing. Last night I was checking out the new Ghostemane song Fed Up. In my head, Ghostemane should be the most popular rock...

Fred
Oct 2, 20212 min read


CNN Doesn't Own A Mirror
Last week, starting at the Daily Mail UK, the nation was fixated with the disappearance of Gabby Petito. As the Daily Mail went to wall...

Fred
Sep 26, 20212 min read


Avon (Oh) v North Ridgeville (Oh) 2021 Football Edition
On Friday night I watched 3-2 Avon play at 3-2 North Ridgeville in Football. The weather was absolutely perfect to watch a fall high...

Fred
Sep 26, 20214 min read


The XXVIII Amendment
One of my (day job) co-workers had to call off of work last week because her Father was missing. My co-worker is 55 years old and her...

Fred
Sep 16, 20212 min read


9/12: What We SHOULD Have Done
All weekend I have been seeing the 9/11 "Never Forget" Memorials. We should never forget, never forget that the 9/11 response was mostly...

Fred
Sep 12, 20213 min read


Phoebe Bridgers Really is Terrible
I have been seeing promotions for a Metallica cover album called the Blacklist List for the past few days now. I tried to resist. I tried...

Fred
Sep 12, 20212 min read
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