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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 More Than Terrorists?
12 11 2004 Liars and Traitors Observations About the Bush Administration; Call Them What  They Are
1 5 2005 The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Comparing Two Disasters, One the Work of God, the Other the Work of Man; A New Year's Column
1 7 2005 Was Jesus Gay? Is "Reverend" Fred Phelps Coming To Town?
1 20 2005 The Inagural Address George W. Bush's Inauguration Speech (Sort Of)
1 27 2005 Icarus Bush's Inaugral Address:  A Dire Forecast of Disaster
2 3 2005 Hide Your Barbies! Modern Action Figures At War?
2 10 2005 Extreme Makeover My Ass! Howard Dean Can Give the Democratic Party A Makeover
2 17 2005 Uncle Sam Is Here To Take Care of You An "Ownership Society" Or A Nanny State?
2 24 2005 Bongs In the Sandbox Did George Bush Inhale?
2 26 2005 The Solution to Illegal Immigration from Mexico Why Doing Nothing Might Be A Workable Strategy
3 2 2005 I Want To Be A Czar Why The New State Public Records Czar Will Have A Great Gig
3 10 2005 Wacko Smacko Jacko Michael Jackson At Trial:  It Just Gets Curioser and Curioser
3 17 2005 A Fine Madness As In, "March Madness"
3 24 2005 Face It, She's A Veg The Terry Schiavo Case (Part I)
3 26 2005 Face It, She's A Veg The Terry Schiavo Case (Part II)
4 1 2005 Popes and Remembrances Upon the Death of John Paul II
4 14 2005 What A Riot! The City Of Tucson Tries To Outlaw Rioting
4 14 2005 Has Anybody Read This Thing? The NRA's Push For Guns In Restaurants Is A Real, Real Bad Idea
5 5 2005 The Salt-and_Pepper Tsunami Why Boomers Won't Go Away Gentle
5 18 2005 Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Why the Read ID Act Presents a Danger to Americans' Liberty
5 25 2005 The Seven Percent Solution Implications Of the Senate's Gang of Fourteen
6 2 2005 Are There Doorbells In Hebron? Pass the Popcorn and Back Away Slowly; War and Soccer During the Intifada
6 8 2005 The Killer, The Kid, and The Cinnamon Bear A Kid On A Bulldozer and A Lesson About How We Treat Each Other
6 16 2005 The First Day of the Bar Convention Bad Yoga:  A Lesson About Dealing With Stress Stresses Mike Out
6 23 2005 An Interview With Barbara LaWall A TV Guide To the Mind Of the Pima County Attorney
6 25 2005 The World's Best Dog Remembering An Old, Beloved Friend
6 30 2005 Red Quicksand George W. Bush Isn't Fooling Anybody Besides Himself
7 7 2005 See No Evil Did The Arizona Daily Miss A Story?  An Exchange With the Editor
7 14 2005 How Could You Have Missed the "Sordid Saga" The Arizona Daily Star Covers Its Backside
7 14 2005 Something About the Eyes Alfred E. and George W. - See the Resemblance?
7 21 2005 Mr. Roberts Is Not Mr. Rogers In His Neighborhood, the Kid Goes To Jail
7 28 2005 Sticks and Stones On Language, Law, and Governance
8 4 2005 Uncle George Wants You Don't Let Them Sign Up For Bush's Bloody Misadventure
8 11 2005 The Halftime Show Now, THESE Are Mascots!  (But They're Politically Incorrect!)
9 1 2005 The Disposable Underclass The Sad, Sad Lesson of New Orleans and Katrina
9 8 2005 God Bless the Liberal Media At Least They Briefly Woke Up
9 15 2005 The Way It Is On Racism In America
9 29 2005 Global Dumbing A More Dangerous Trend Than Global Warming
10 7 2005 Caligula's Horse Mike Calls It:  Harriet Miers Eventually Did Withdraw Her Nomination
10 13 2005 The Emperor's Wardrobe Watching Bush Lose His Grip On the Wheel of Governance
10 25 2005 Forever Augie We Enjoyed One Last Drink and One Last Drive Together
11 10 2005 Support Your Local Home-Grown Business This Bud's For You
11 17 2005 Tryptophan and DaVinci Mike Tries To Get Into the Thanksgiving Thing
11 24 2005 Remedy:  Dog Welcoming Penny and Holden To the Dogless Tully Household
12 1 2005 When Archetype Meets Cliché Hubris and Tragedy; We've Seen This Movie Before
12 8 2005 Imagining Remembering John Lennon
12 16 2005 For Everything... Mike Tully Leaves the Inside Track Radio Show and Puts the Column On Hold
6 22 2006 Gorillas In the Midst Why House Republicans Remind Mike Of A Gorilla In San Francisco
7 13 2006 How To Scuzz Up the Constitution Why the Flag Desecration Amendment Is Madness
7 20 2006 Z Is For Soccer On the World Cup and Zidane's Curious But Good Career Move
7 27 2006 Vlad, The Impaler How Dumb Must You Be To Be Vlad Putin's Straight Man?
8 3 2006 Three Doors Three Intractable Problems?  They Might Just Have Been Solved, and We Don't Know It
8 10 2006 Rainbow Bridge Solution A Cost Effective Solution To the Rainbow Bridge Dilemma
8 18 2006 Thinking Inside the Box The Story Behind the Big Box Dispute
8 24 2006 A Race To Survive CBS' "Survivor" Tribes Decided By Race?  Mike Takes A Closer Look
8 31 2006 The Immutable Ocotillo Leaf A Lesson On the Changing Seasons and the Seasons of Man
9 8 2006 Jihadist George Mike Finds It Disconcerting That Bush and bin Laden Share the Same World View
9 15 2006 Secrets and Lies Bush, the CIA, and Dangerous Potential; Why the President Wants to Torture People
9 21 2006 Matrimonial Profanity Why Prop 107 Might Favor Homosexual Couples Over Heterosexuals
9 28 2006 Bill, Glad We Still Know Ye Bill Clinton Takes On the Fox Network and the Right Wing and Energizes Democrats
10 5 2006 Turn the Page There's A Sexual Predator In Congress?  We're Shocked! Shocked!
10 13 2006 TO's Children's Story The Beloved Wide Receiver Writes About The Little Pony Who Got Dissed
10 19 2006 What's Right With Kansas A Lesson For the Nation From A Bellwether State?  Kansans Renounce the Right.
10 26 2006 Senator Kyl's Conscience Senator Jon Kyl Has A Conscience; He Just Doesn't Listen To It
11 9 2006 Throw Rummy From the Train Mike's First "Musical" Column; Sing Along, Gilbert & Sullivan Style!
11 17 2006 Ready, Aim, Duck The Victorious Democrats Celebrate By Forming A Circular Firing Squad
11 30 2006 Heavy Breathing The Breathless Anticipation of the Iraq Study Group's Report and Recommendations
12 7 2006 These Are Conservatives? After Reading A Couple of "Conservative" Columnists, Mike Wonders If Conservatism Is An Ethos At All
12 14 2006 Retreat of the WINOs How the WINOs turned on each other when their wonderful war went horribly wrong.
12 21 2006 The Night Before Christmas - Rio Nuevo Version With Apologies to Clement Moore, who would probably appreciate the irony!
12 28 2006 Gerald Ford and the Airport Ambush A Post-Midnight Ambush, A Career Rescued, and the Reason Mike Drank Gerald Ford's Coffee!
1 11 2007 No Problem Mike's list of stupid things people say that they should renounce in 2007.
1 25 2007 The Great Blizzard of 007 When a one inch snowfall paralyzed Tucson.
2 2 2007 The Season of Molly Mike Remembers Molly Ivins
2 16 20007 Diversity Ain't A Coke Commercial Mike Reminds Us There Is A Dark Side To Diversity
2 22 2007 Breaking News Ladies and Gentlemen:  The Mouseketwits!  (What Passes for News These Days)
3 1 2007 The Don't Ask, Don't Tell of Bullying How an article in the Tucson Weekly reveals a danger in our schools
3 8 2007 Disposable Fellow Human Beings George Bush's Latest in a series of failed business ventures kills thousands.
3 15 2007 Bong Hits For Jesus How A High School Prank Made It To the United States Supreme Court
3 22 2007 Why Not A War Tax? If Americans want to fight a war, why won't they pay for it?
3 29 2007 Congress to Bush:  Win This War! Cut and run?  Maybe not.  How about win it and then leave?
4 6 2007 Arizona Needs A Cyber-Bullying Law Cyber-bullying is a danger and a legal minefield.  The legislature needs to act:  now!
4 18 2007 Ignorimus The fall of Don Imus:  What does it really tell us?
4 25 2007 Bullets, Bullies, and Lessons Unlearned What can we learn from the tragedy at Virginia Tech?
5 18 2007 Good Times for the Hate Mongers The proposed immigration bill will unleash dark forces in America.
5 25 2007 Gremlins From the Kremlin The first appearance of the cyber-front.  Russia "bombs" Estonia with a cyber-attack.
5 31 2007 All It Takes Is A Monica Just how much damage can Monica Goodling do?  And what the heck is "caging?"
6 8 2007 Props for Callista The unsung heroine of Arizona's remarkable and unexpected NCAA softball championship.
6 14 2007 Like A Honeymoon A romantic take on a colonoscopy.
6 28 2007 Mr. Roberts' Neighborhood The Supreme Court of Rewind:  Commentary on the Seattle and Louisville Voluntary Integration Cases
7 13 2007 Why Not Impeachment? Why there is a need to hobble this rogue administration with an impeachment proceeding.
7 20 2007 Iraq and A Hard Place The beat goes on.  One of Mike's "musical" columns.  Wait for the end.
8 3 2007 When Fools Fall In Line How can you defeat the terrorists when you're afraid of a talking snowman?  A comment on the U-Tube debate.
8 10 2007 It Is Time To End Conservative Rule How the conservative governance has damaged America and must come to an end.
8 17 2007 Sacco and Padilla Echoes of a controversial trial from eight decades ago and lessons for the present.
8 24 2007 Michael Vick Comments on a disgraced football player and why he matters.
9 7 2007 More Thoughts on Race Relations: Jena, Louisiana Is it Jim Crow justice or a new learning opportunity?
9 14 2007 Douche Bags and Poets The interesting saga of a "First Amendment Freedom Fighter."
9 28 2007 Kool-Aid Visions of Tucson's Future Another addled-brained futurist or a visionary?  Mike has his opinon.
10 5 2007 Don't Snort the Water Tucson is invaded by "brain-eating killer bugs!"
10 12 2007 Is It Time for Ricky? A case for Ricky Hunley as Arizona's Football Coach
10 26 2007 Even Though I Don't Have A Vote Mike's take on the 2007 Tucson City Election
10 31 2007 Let's Keep God Out of Politics Don't tell us about your relationship with God.  It's not really our business.
12 21 2007 The Silent Homeless Pets Abandoned by Irresponsible University Student
1 11 2008 A Little Bitty Tear A new turn in the democratic presidential race; and no life on the other side.
1 21 2008 The Lonesome Picker Rides No More A Farewell to John Stewart, one of the greatest American singers and songwriters.
2 8 2008 Oh, How I Miss Those  Wonderful Calls! Mike's withdrawal from the primary campaign and those robo-calls.
2 15 2008 This Week in Politix A strange and wonderful primary season
2 22 2008 Lipstick For the Old Grey Lady The New York Times Handles Salacious Gossip Like A Dowager Trying On A Thong
3 4 2008 It's 3:00 A. M. Do You Know Where Your President Is? Silly presidential politics and "semi-super Tuesday."
3 21 2008 Modern American Conservatism and Racism The dark, ugly secret of American conservatism.
4 16 2008 Earthquakes and Pronouns How a single pronoun threatened to undermine a presidential campaign.
5 10 2008 A Fork In the Road A meditation on the evolving race for the Presidency.
5 17 2008 Why the Cyberbullying Prosecution Is A Bad Idea This case could turn every "terms of service" violation into a potential felony.
6 1 2008 News For the Hopelessly Confused Messing with your mind so you don't have to.
6 19 2008 Twilight of the Goofs What happened to the lofty neo-con vision for America?
6 26 2008 Why the Supreme Court's Gun Opinion Is Bonkers How Antonin Scalia's attempt to build a monument to himself set back the rights of gun owners.
9 5 2008 Daddy Warbucks and Xena The cartoonish Republican ticket for 2008
9 26 2008 Darwinian Socialism How Reagan and Bush created an ugly form of socialism