Stephen Tuttle | Author

Vigilantes, and Other Issues

March 1, 2025

So many issues have arisen as the new administration lays waste to chunks of the federal government that are pretty valuable in a pinch. We’ll have to try and sort all that out another time; other issues occupy today’s space.

Let’s start today in New York City, whe… Read More >>

Hardly Fair

Feb. 22, 2025

College athletics has become fully professionalized. Amateurism and education are no longer front and center; pay-to-play is the new order of the day.

Many would argue this is only fair. College athletics is not some minor-league enterprise, it’s a full-blown industry with ful… Read More >>

Proving We Need It

Feb. 15, 2025

Black History Month is not quite dead. President Trump signed a declaration announcing it and he mentioned several Black people from our history, perhaps the only such folks whose names he knows.

But the Trump ban on all things DEI (diversity, equality, inclusion) was more important… Read More >>

Progress, but Not Enough

Feb. 8, 2025

It isn’t clear how much longer the current government will be producing data regarding climate, as they are already in the process of removing references to climate change online and in printed informational material.

The operative philosophy seems to be if we don’t talk… Read More >>

Pardon Us

Feb. 1, 2025

Presidents have near absolute power to issue pardons or commutations for those convicted of federal crimes. Actually, they can issue such clemency for those already convicted of crimes, those currently on trial, or even preemptively for future crimes.

Article II, Section 2, Clause 1… Read More >>

Constitution at Risk?

Jan. 25, 2025

It would seem our Constitution is somewhat at risk as our new president, and at least some of his supporters, don’t care for parts they find inconvenient. The president has actually said he believes he can find ways to circumvent some sections through Executive Orders and other parts … Read More >>

Making It Worse

Jan. 18, 2025

Los Angeles County is not the only thing burning; lots of politicians have their pants on fire, too.

Disasters are instructive if for no other reason than they help us differentiate between those seeking to help and find solutions and those only seeking to assign blame. With the fla… Read More >>

A New Partner for Solar

Jan. 11, 2025

Solar is gaining traction as panels become more affordable and battery storage becomes more efficient. According to Statista.com., the U.S. now gets 5.6 percent of its electrical power from solar energy, three times more than just two decades ago. According to the U.S. Energy Information Ad… Read More >>

Delusional Ramblings for Day One

Jan. 4, 2025

There is always some mystery to what a newly elected president and Congress might do to or for us. With Donald Trump, we have someone who has made a series of promises regarding his very first day in office. We’ll soon discover there is a significant chasm between what a candidate pro… Read More >>

Celebrating However We Choose

Dec. 21, 2024

Christmas can be a solemn symbolic celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, or it can be
a purely secular event, or it can be a combination of both. The real beauty of Christmas is we can celebrate however we choose or not at all.

It was commonly believed the first Christmas c… Read More >>

Spaced Out

Dec. 14, 2024

The Space Race began way back in 1957 when the old Soviet Union launched little Sputnik, the first human-made object placed in earth orbit. It didn’t do anything but blink and beep, but it was a very big deal at the time. The U.S. responded in 1958 with Explorer I, and the race was on… Read More >>

Leave Them Alone

Dec. 7, 2024

Cryptozoologists, those who study and search for animals whose existence is disputed and cannot be substantiated, are very busy these days as we “discover” more and more unusual critters. Or at least we think we do.

Alabama, for example, has some kind of albino Bigfoot t… Read More >>

They Already Know

Nov. 30, 2024

It’s been another year of efforts to ban books from public or school libraries or, at the very least, move them to a place that makes it harder to find them. All in the name of protecting our delicate children from the ravages of literature with controversial topics and language.

Election Redux

Nov. 16, 2024

The post mortem—and for Democrats that always involves finger pointing and blame—started as the votes were still being counted. This year they were way better at finding reasons they lost than they were at finding ways to win.

Senator Bernie Sanders, who seems to get cra… Read More >>

Spending Is Never Reduced

Nov. 9, 2024

It’s finally over. This is being written late Tuesday (election) night, so the complaining and accusations have just begun. At the very least, we should now be relieved of the low-quality, high-volume barrage of electronic commercials and mailers.

There was some amusement, muc… Read More >>

We Will Survive

Nov. 2, 2024

Some of you will be reading this before Tuesday’s election and some after. You might still be hopeful or now joyful or despondent. So whether you believe the world will be, or has been, saved from the forces of evil or is likely to be controlled by those forces, take a very deep breat… Read More >>

Immigration, Inflation, and Abortion

Oct. 26, 2024

Thankfully, it’s almost over—the absolute blizzard of misinformation, disinformation, and blatant lies. Let’s see if we can sort through some of it.

National Republicans have made immigration a top-of-the-line issue, and legitimately so. No president has had an eff… Read More >>

Ignoring the New Normal

Oct. 19, 2024

It seems no event, natural or human-caused, can escape the vivid imaginations of the conspiracy fans anxious to find wrongdoers lurking everywhere. Now it’s hurricanes and their aftermaths that have become the targets of the feeble minded and political grandstanders who want us to bel… Read More >>

Tariffs = Taxes

Oct. 12, 2024

When he isn’t telling outrageous lies about the Hurricane Helene relief efforts, and we’ll have an aside about that later, Donald Trump likes to brag about his tariffs. At one point, he even said he’s the only president to have ever put a tariff on imported Chinese goods, … Read More >>

Tiff over TIFs

Oct. 5, 2024

The voting has begun and, if you’d like to ignore the blizzard of nonsensical and accusatory campaign advertisements—hey, already voted, quit sending me your crap—the next month is little more than something to be endured or muted or thrown away.

Others, hardier so… Read More >>