Stephen Tuttle | Author

And They're Off

May 2, 2026

It must be an election year because Congressman Jack Bergman is back to communicating, sort of, with constituents. His recent non-campaign campaign mailer does not mention upcoming elections at all, instead discussing how his office can be of assistance to District 1 residents. Just a coinc… Read More >>

An Obscene Budget

April 25, 2026

We’ve had a couple of interesting weeks. We started and ended and restarted a war of choice against Iran, though we still await the evidence it was necessary. We experienced extreme and destructive weather events and we have been warned more will happen. We did not get the remaining E… Read More >>

The Appeal of Mars

April 18, 2026

Things here on Earth aren’t so great. We’re at war with Iran, and they seem to have a different understanding of what being “obliterated” means. We’re apparently at least claiming to run Venezuela and are happily stealing their oil by the “millions of bar… Read More >>

The Deregulation Disaster

April 11, 2026

We know the environment and its weather have been temperamental for several years. And we’ve known carbon dioxide released into our atmosphere tends to increase temperatures since the concept was first proposed way back in 1938. The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change was finally … Read More >>

Are They Listening?

April 4, 2026

Organizers say it was the largest single-day protest gathering in U.S. history. The No Kings Coalition claims there were rallies in all 50 states, 3,300 of them in total attended by eight million people. Locally, Traverse Indivisible, which organized the Traverse City rally and march, estim… Read More >>

SAVE Act Saves Nothing

March 21, 2026

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act will safeguard nothing but might make it much more difficult for anyone to register and vote.

This pointless bit of legislation, which purports to fix a problem we know does not exist, is simply an extension of Donald Trump’s… Read More >>

Worse Than Iraq

March 14, 2026

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says, “We’re winning,” though what we're winning is open to debate. But let’s back up.

What is now Iran has been an organized civilization for more than 2,000 years, going all the way back to Cyrus the Great and the Achaemeni… Read More >>

Focus Locally

March 7, 2026

We now have an undeclared and potentially illegal war ongoing against Iran, and we claim to be running Venezuela after having kidnapped and imprisoned their president. Not to mention we are a long way from being done with the Jeffrey Epstein horrors, unless you believe nobody but Epstein an… Read More >>

AI Is Here, Privacy Is Gone

Feb. 28, 2026

If you are worried about artificial intelligence (AI) taking over and controlling your life, you are way, way too late because your fears have already been realized. AI is loose and capable of running wild. And don’t be concerned about your privacy, either, because you have none.

Defame the Victims

Feb. 21, 2026

Politicians and their followers have always played loosely with the facts, puffing up any successes and blaming failures on others. It’s been that way for a long time.

Sixty years ago we were lied to about the Vietnam War, ignoring our futility and growing losses and wildly in… Read More >>

Take the Extra Steps

Feb. 14, 2026

Celebrities like to make political statements at award ceremonies, and they’ve been doing it for a long time, usually to the displeasure of many.

Those less than thrilled frequently suggest the “stars” stick to what they know best, stay in their lane, and leave the… Read More >>

Turning Victory into Defeat

Feb. 7, 2026

Immigration enforcement should be a win for Donald Trump. He promised he would secure the border, and he has certainly tightened it. He also claimed his administration would go after the worst of the worst illegal immigrants, those who committed terrible acts of violence before or after the… Read More >>

Affordable Housing Fantasies

Jan. 31, 2026

We are told, ad nauseam, there is a housing crisis or a housing shortage or a housing affordability crisis or something. It’s true enough that housing, especially locally, has become expensive well beyond normal increases and well beyond inflation.

Inflation ended 2025 at 2.7 … Read More >>

Heading Backward

Jan. 24, 2026

No, snow in Florida does not mean climate change was just a hoax all along. We were told, and told and told, that extreme weather events would become the norm—you know, like snow in Florida.

Meanwhile, the Phoenix area is having no winter at all, with temperatures still around… Read More >>

Economic Delusions

Jan. 17, 2026

According to our president, the United States was “dead” and the rest of the world “had no respect for us” and we had “no leadership.” That was sort of the tip of a Trumpian iceberg of relentless negativity regarding the country and our last president.Read More >>

Stops and Starts

Jan. 10, 2026

Maybe 2026 will bring some changes, things we need to stop doing and things we should start doing.

Let’s start with a message for our MAGA friends: Do yourselves a favor and let go of your 2020 delusions. You’ve had five full years to expose the “widespread fraud&r… Read More >>

Assault on the First Amendment

Jan. 3, 2026

Back in the 1950s, it was Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and his supporters who decided the First Amendment could simply be ignored. He—and his attorney and eventual Donald Trump mentor Roy Cohn—found communists in every part of the government, including the military, and lur… Read More >>

Christmas Survives Another Year

Dec. 20, 2025

It’s about that time when a certain president will declare he has once again saved Christmas. Actually, Christmas hasn’t needed saving since the mid-1600s when the Puritans banned it in Boston because it was not mentioned in the Bible. Since then, Christmas has been on a pretty … Read More >>

Of Airports and Gravel

Dec. 13, 2025

No doubt the entire Grand Traverse region is popular with visitors and prospective new residents. Additionally, people already here travel more, and some now telework from home but have to zoom off to meetings someplace other than their home office. The result is our little airport just kee… Read More >>

Pardon Me

Dec. 6, 2025

A president’s constitutional power to offer clemency to prisoners, or soon-to-be prisoners, by way of pardon or commutation for federal crimes is absolute with the exception of impeachment. A pardon totally erases a conviction and immediately ends penalties associated with it and clea… Read More >>