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All of Mike's Columns from the Inside Track Online Website Are Published Here.

The Columns Are Listed In Chronological Order, with Mike's First Column of July 1, 2003, at the top of the list.  The most recent column is at the bottom.

Subject Matter includes local politics, TUSD, the occasional crazy law or ordinance and, of course, the war in Iraq.  Mike was an early critic of the war and the Bush administration.  In review, those columns turned out be tragically insightful.

New Columns will be added to this page after they run on the Inside Track Online website.

 

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Month Date Year Title and Link Subject Matter
7 1 2003 The Nearer and Farther Futures of Mt. Lemmon An Elegy to a lost cabin and some suggestions for the future of Mt. Lemmon and Summerhaven.
7 9 2003 The Land Beyond Smart and Dumb The Bush Administration's Disdain for the Truth
7 16 2003 A Count Of Manifesto Mike's reply to Emil Franzi and Tom Danehy's "Liberal-Conservative Manifesto"
7 23 2003 Governor Bill and Billy the Kid  Just who is buried under that grave in Ft. Sumner, New Mexico?
7 30 2003 Public Financing Vs. Democracy On The Auction Block In Defense of Public Financing of  Elections
8 6 2003 What's Love Got To Do With It? Why the government should keep its hands off marriage.
8 13 2003 TUSD’S Civil Rights Problem Why TUSD will never honor civil rights while Stan Paz remains Superintendent.
8 20 2003 Nuptials and Butterflies for Rio Nuevo Mike argues for a Segway presence in Rio Nuevo
8 27 2003 “Baby Boy” and the Public Interest A stupid radio trick in Tucson screams volumes about the state of American broadcasting.
9 11 2003 She Is Ready Reflections on our child leaving home and what it means to be an "empty nester."
9 18 2003 Showdown At The ICC Corral How A Little-Known Citizens' Committee Is Taking On the TUSD Desegregation Cash Cow
9 25 2003 A Tale of Two Georges As In Bush and Patton; What Would the General Think of Our "Wartime President?"
10 2 2003 Pride Goeth Before the Buyout A Tale of Two Losers (UA Football, TUSD "Leadership")
10 9 2003 Rush Limbaugh Is A Not-So-Fat Racist A Radio Talk Show Host Tries To Hijack ESPN And Is Promptly Shown The Door
10 16 2003 Cram the Anti-Tram Spam Why A Tram In The Catalinas Might Not Be Such A Bad Idea
10 23 2003 The Frankenstein Clause The Scary Side of the Right To Life Argument
10 30 2003 TUSD Versus The Neighborhood TUSD Takes On A Neighborhood Over A School Closing; Guess Who Wins?
11 13 2003 Don't Mess With Taxes The Real Issue Is Not Tax Versus No-Tax; It's Smart Tax Versus Dumb Tax (Franzi Hated This One - Ha!)
11 20 2003 Snapshots of Kaua'i  Mike Reflects on His Island Vacation Home.
11 22 2003 40 Mike reflects on the 40th anniversary of the JFK assassination.
11 27 2003 Turkey Day Musings  When The Tryptophan Overdose REALLY Kicks In!
12 8 2003 The Whiffenpoof Song Mike's Pearl Harbor Day tribute to his Father and the Greatest Generation.  Written December 7, 2003.
12 15 2003  Why God Made Dogs  Courageous Cheri Wahl and Her Special Friends.
12 22 2003 Better Angels  American presidents cannot simultaneously lie to the American people and summon the better angels.
12 29 2003 A Year Of Lunacy  When I look back on 2003, the waning year is remarkable for its lunacy.
1 5 2004 A New Year's Rant Mike Cuts Loose On New Years, 2004.  Hang On For the Ride!
1 12 2004 Bible Or Bile? How Right-Wing Christian Kooks Threaten America.
1 19 2004 F AND THE F-ING F-ERS WHO SAY IT A Word About The Word.  Children Be Warned!
1 26 2004 Our Unwinnable War On Terrorism  "A symptom of a simplistic foreign policy that seeks “moral clarity” over strategic clarity."
2 2 2004 Samurai and Dwarves  Handicapping the Democratic Presidential Field.  And We REALLY Mean Handicapping!
2 9 2004 WHEN JURORS ROLL THEIR EYES  Why George W. Bush Is His Own Worst Witness.
2 23 2004 The President's Cover-Up George W. Bush's Phony "Investigation" Into His Disastrous Lies About Iraq
3 8 2004 Thinking Outside the Box Idea Time:  The Segway, The Tram, and The Highway To The Sea
3 19 2004 Happy Anniversary, Iraq One Year Later, the War In Iraq Is Not Going Well
3 26 2004 A Single Leaf and A Time To Heal How A Lesson Can Be Conveyed By A Simple Leaf In Early Spring
4 2 2004 The Case of the Sharp-Eyed Card Cheat A Case So Bizarre That Even The Ninth Circuit Became A Necessary Voice of Reason!
4 9 2004 Jay Garner Speaks His Mind What Went In Wrong In Iraq, From The Guy Who Was There.  General Jay Garner At The War College.
4 23 2004 The Rise and Fall of Estanislado Paz An Inside Look At Why The Stan Paz Era Was One Of the Worst In TUSD History.
4 30 2004 Oral Fixation A Defendant At A Murder Trial Argues Fellatio As A Defense; Jury Swallows It (A True Story)
5 7 2004 Gin Rummy Mike Has Seen Enough; It's Time To Fire Donald Rumsfeld
5 14 2004 Vote Yes On the Pima County Bond Issue Mike Endorses the Bonds (Which Passed Easily)
5 23 2004 The Day Treebeard Attacked Leo Dumb and Dumber Try To Clean Up Aspen Fire Debris After The County Theatens Mike
6 1 2004 Edward Tully, May 24, 1944 In Memoriam:  To My Uncle Eddie, Whom I Never Met, Who Gave His Life For His Country
6 5 2004 Gems From History's Mines Honoring Ronald Reagan
6 13 2004 The Coming Segway Invasion Get On Board, Or Get Out of the Way; The Segways Are Coming, The Segways Are Coming!
7 17 2004 How I Cheneyed Up My Ankle Blood Loss On A Hawaiian Beach and Why Friends Are Important
7 24 2004 Here's To The Plutonic-Martian Disintegration of 2004 Why We're All Messed Up; Blame It On Those Frisky Planets!
8 22 2004 Not So Swift The Swift Boat Veterans and The Lies Against John Kerry
8 29 2004 Let's Hear It For Stupidity In Defense of Stupidity; It's Way Overrated!
10 7 2004 Stand Down, Marine! How The University of Arizona and Pima Community College Worked to Keep A Young Marine Out of Service
10 7 2004 The Fork In the Road 1 The Need to Debate the War In Iraq
10 7 2004 The Fork In the Road 2 The Need to Debate the War In Iraq
10 7 2004 The Fork In the Road 3 The Need to Debate the War In Iraq
10 7 2004 The Kauai Essay Ruminations on Water and Petroleum; An Essay Written In Beautiful Princeville, Kaua'i
10 21 2004 Where Are The Responsible Republicans? Why They Should Denounce Michelle Malkin's Hate Speech For the Sake of Their Own Party
10 28 2004 Forget John Kerry Why George W. Bush Does Not Deserve To Be Rehired
11 4 2004 The Homophobic Election Do American Voters Fear Gays Mo