Stephen Tuttle | Author
Just Stupid
Nov. 28, 2020
Some day historians may be able to identify the moment when too many of us stopped believing in science or facts and, instead formed our opinions based on social media, polemicists we see on television and hear on the radio, and worst of all, politicians.
We're currently in the mi...
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Thanks
Nov. 21, 2020
Some folks don't think there's much about 2020 for which we should, or even could, be thankful. The country is painfully divided, we've just completed the most contentious election of our lifetimes, and we have an out-of-control pandemic with restrictions too many of us simply ignore, as ...
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Election Leftovers
Nov. 14, 2020
* The folks doing the political polling need to change their methodology or there is no reason for the media to report their results. Even in the states correctly predicted for Biden, the projected margin was off well beyond the margin of error. This was a far worse perform...
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Ever-Increasing Price Tag
Nov. 7, 2020
At least some of it is now over. We won't be getting any more annoying, intrusive, and unwanted texts from Amy from the Biden campaign, David from the Trump campaign, Emily from MoveOn, or the rest who constantly invaded our phones. At least we could just click off the robocalls when we d...
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A Pathetic Abdication
Oct. 31, 2020
“We're rounding the corner.” — President Donald Trump
“We may need a national mask mandate.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
“We're not going to control the...
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Oct. 24, 2020 Every presidential candidate makes plenty of promises. Most are fantasy or folly — that pesky Congress often intrudes — some are absurd, and some can actually be accomplished. During the 2016 campaign, according to an Associated Press count, candidate Donald Trum...
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Oct. 17, 2020 It's going to be a very long election night. Voter fraud will have nothing to do with it. Every state has some form of early, mail-in voting this year, and only Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Indiana still require a reason to request a mail-in ballot. The other 45 s...
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Oct. 10, 2020 The Michigan Supreme Court, in a 4–3 decision supported by the four Republicans on the Court, with dissenting opinions from the three Democrats, has ruled Governor Gretchen Whitmer does not have the authority to continue issuing emergency orders under the Emergency Powers of Governo...
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Oct. 3, 2020 He said scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were wrong when they first issued their mask recommendations. He resisted and contradicted their suggestion that businesses and schools should close. He denied that there were shortages of personal protective equip...
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Sept. 26, 2020 Project 1619, a product of New York Times Magazine writers, is a potential public school curriculum that attempts to redefine early U.S. history by making the assertion that slavery and Black Americans were the keystone to our creation and development. It posits our country'...
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Sept. 19, 2020 Unlock Michigan is likely to unlock trouble. It's awash with potential for unintended consequences. The idea is that Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has far exceeded what should be her authority, using a 1945 emergency powers law to unilaterally make decisions during the ...
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Sept. 12, 2020 On May 25, George Floyd died in Minneapolis with a police officer's knee on his neck. The protests have not stopped since. Additional violent interactions between police officers and African Americans, some obviously justified and others questionable, have kept the unrest roiling....
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Sept. 5, 2020 So, now it's “herd immunity.” That seems to be the latest Trump Administration COVID-19 strategy. At least the steps they're now taking are pushing in that direction. Their reluctance to recommend masks and social distancing, their insistence on in-person teaching for ...
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Aug. 29, 2020 We are told sports are a kind of societal glue, a unifying and uplifting communal necessity, especially during challenging times. It's more likely sports are an ephemeral distraction — valuable but not critical. That's especially true at the professional and top college leve...
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Aug. 22, 2020 In 2016, the problem was all those illegal immigrants voting, remember? Millions and millions of them we were told. To be fair, the voter fraud commission that President Trump launched did find one green-card holder who had tried to vote. And on average, each year, there are about 20 pros...
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Aug. 15, 2020 Former Leelanau County Road Commissioner Tom Eckerle recently explained he wouldn't wear a mask because “this whole thing is because of those n****** down in Detroit.” Undeterred, he pushed all-in, repeatedly using the vilest of racial epithets ...
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Aug. 8, 2020 It's been nearly seven months of COVID-19, and we're still struggling just to slow it down. It has disrupted lives, destroyed businesses and the jobs that went with them, putting 40 million Americans out of work. Children have been out of class for more than twice as long as a normal summ...
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Aug. 1, 2020 “Defunding” the police means different things to different groups. For some, it is synonymous with reforming the police. For others it means a diversion of some funding, now used by law enforcement, for social and mental health workers. Still others hope for a Utopian future i...
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July 25, 2020 The Republican Party was born on March 20, 1854, in Ripon, Wisconsin. Their first presidential candidate was John C. Fremont, the first Republican elected president was Abraham Lincoln. Democrats got their start earlier, forming officially in 1828. Andrew Jackson was their first president...
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July 18, 2020 There is near unanimity regarding getting kids back to school. We all know it's important on multiple levels. We know in-person classrooms with on-the-spot individualized instruction is most effective. We know some children, especially those left out of the di...
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Promises, Promises
Patience Required
Made Things Worse
Spinning out of Control
Warts And All
Unlocking Trouble
Serving No Cause
In Sickness and in Heat
Do Sports Bring Us Together?
A Counterfeit Issue
A Racist and A Park
Well now.
Emerging Truths
Debunking Defunding
The Parties Are No Party
A Health Experiment