New Rules for White House Press Room Decorum
Here are some new rules to improve the decorum of news briefings, likely affecting the person at the podium more than those in the audience:... read more...
View Article...and the horse he rode in on.
Ryan Zinke to resign as Interior Secretary. ... read more...
View ArticleColumn gone, but column collection survives as book
Very excited to be doing a reading/signing regarding my new book "21st Century Fix." The event is Sunday, March 3rd, 3pm, at Union Avenue B... read more...
View ArticleTrump Reveals He is Actually Andy Kaufman
(AP) Axios reported today that President Donald Trump confessed to being the thought-to-be-dead comedian Andy Kaufman. Trump/Kaufman confe... read more...
View ArticleHappy Watergate Day
Happy Watergate Day! It's been 47 years since the break-in at the DNC (the physical one, not the 2016 Russian/Trump electronic one). I typ... read more...
View ArticleWhere are the GOP presidential debates?
Has there been a peep anywhere about Republican Presidential Debates? Donald Trump has a serious opponent in former two-term governor of Ma... read more...
View ArticleMark Harmon columns find a new home
Today I have a column in The Daily Times (Maryville/Blount County). It's the first of what I hope will be many. I'm scheduled to appear ev... read more...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Farfetched File Comes to KnoxViews
From the Not-So-Farfetched File: It has been a summer of Trump Administration confusion regarding foreign policy basics—things like place... read more...
View ArticleBurchett's Many Bad Votes
Here's a link to my latest column. The only problem was there were so many bad votes from which to choose. (link...) ... read more...
View ArticleThe Shame of Tim Burchett is growing
Late last night a bipartisan majority in Congress, 363-40, passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. It included paid sick leave,... read more...
View ArticleThere is a term for it...
I think Trump is suffering from Premature Reactivation. ... read more...
View ArticleNoble Prizes (could mean Pulitzers)
President Trump now wants to remove any honors for the Noble Gases. "Neon, too flashy," he tweeted. "Krypton is just a made-up Superman th... read more...
View ArticleThe Numbers to Know re: COVID-19 and Tennessee
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston U. and GA Tech have created a COVID-19 Simulator. I just ran the numbers for ... read more...
View ArticleAbsentee voting by mail
Today is the first day to request absentee voting (that is, a mail-in ballot) for our election coming up August 6th. It is a federal and... read more...
View ArticleLike a Roger Stone
In past summers around this time I’d be part of a team scripting and rehearsing for Front Page Follies, an East Tennessee gridiron show ma... read more...
View ArticleAnother Virtual Follies Song: Old Man Blather
Here's an additional tune for our virtual Front Page Follies. It references a certain undeserving recipient of the Presidential Medal of Fr... read more...
View ArticleVirtual Follies Finale: Trump Side of the Moon
Now you may be ready to gather friends for something more complex, perhaps finding a karaoke version of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the M... read more...
View ArticleVirtual Front Page Follies: write your own encore
Songs start with a familiar tune. In this case it's One Night in Bangkok. Then you start seeing how it should change. Thigh-land, Oriental... read more...
View ArticleWith Apologies to William Blake
Tiger Tiger, burning bright, In forking rivers of the night; What mortal call on 9-1-1, Could frame thy fearful location? ... read more...
View ArticleTrump bungling COVID and at odds with Ovid
Not only is Donald Trump bungling the national response to COVID, he also seems to be at odds with the Roman poet Ovid. Here are some relev... read more...
View ArticleBurchett Ducks Debate
Congressman Tim Burchett was a "no show" for last night's League of Women Voters (plus other groups) online debate. Following the group's r... read more...
View ArticleA Bollywood Angle on our congressional race
I think this explains things well. Hoyos v. Burchett ... read more...
View ArticleNational Buy Nothing Day
A reminder that today is the annual Buy Nothing Day, a protest against excess consumerism/materialism. ... read more...
View ArticleKubla Khan revisited (with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
In Xanadu did Joe Biden A statesman pleasure-dome decree: Potomac, the sacred river, ran Through Senates measureless to man Down to a Che... read more...
View ArticleBurchett imprecise on 25th Amendment
Our local congressional representative, Tim Burchett, issued the following about his vote last night regarding the 25th Amendment. "Congress... read more...
View ArticleGround Hog Day
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today, forecasting another six weeks of Republican obstruction on Capitol Hill. ... read more...
View ArticleBurchett freaking out
It appears my little start-up congressional campaign has freaked out Rep. Tim Burchett. He's fundraising from it. Here's part of what Burc... read more...
View ArticleBurchett joins anti-abortion screed sent to the US Supreme Court
My opponent, Tim Burchett, is among 228 Republican legislators who have joined a "friend of the court" brief favoring Mississippi's case ask... read more...
View ArticleOne year to a electing a better congressman
Sent to lots of news organizations earlier today. Let's see who uses it tomorrow. --Mark Harmon News Release For Release: Nov. 8, 2021, 1... read more...
View ArticleJan. 6th, what our congressman tweets
On Jan. 6th, here is what our congressman chose to tweet: Two matters of ethics: 1) ignoring this important anniversary 2) giving financial... read more...
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