Cereese Qusba and Sophia Dasser of the Cornell Daily Sun There was a period of only a few days, from September 18-21, during which reporti...

Curmie didn’t expect to be doing another “follow-up” post quite this soon, but there are a couple of new developments of late.   He’ll r...

By now, Gentle Reader, you will no doubt be aware of the utter implosion of Senator Eric Schmitt’s ill-considered attack  on former Special ...

Having made his living as a theatre scholar/teacher/practitioner for a few decades, Curmie is well aware that what appears to be real on s...

When Curmie first saw the image you see here, it had been posted to Facebook by a leftie site: maybe it was one he follows, but he thinks it...

The guy in the photo is our title character, Charles Frohman (1856-1915).   We’ll get to him in a moment. The chances are, Gentle Reader, ...

Unlike Part 1  of this two-part essay, this isn’t about which team should have won in a closely-fought contest.  It’s about what you see h...

Two photographs linked to college football have received a lot of attention of late.  Curmie’s original thought was to link them in a single...

Like many other Americans, Curmie is something of a mongrel in terms of ethnicity.   He’s never done a formal genealogical study of his ance...

Someone looks rather like a naughty schoolboy who just got verbally eviscerated by the headmistress. Curmie, like many Americans, has some I...

Zohran Mamdani: The New “America’s Mayor”   Two items stood out on Curmie’s Facebook feed this morning.  Both referred not to the horrific e...

Brigitte Bandit with the rhinestone-covered guitar Dolly Parton sent her. Sometimes the convergence of events is almost unbearable.  It was ...

The last meeting of a seminar Curmie took in grad school was held at the prof’s house.  We’d all read everyone else’s final research paper...

Jason Arday, 1985-2026 Curmie is a little late to the feeding frenzy around the case of Jason Arday.  Arday is, or rather was , a Cambridge ...

Marco Rubio: Moving Target Imagine, if you will, Gentle Reader, that you’re Marco Rubio.  You’re a rather mendacious little weasel (as usual...

The scene of the  “ crime. ” Over 16 years ago, in only the sixth post of this manifestation of Curmie’s blogging life, he wrote about the c...

Shiloh Hendrix at her trial. Curmie has often claimed to be more of a civil libertarian than a liberal, but there are limits to that analysi...

Curmie recognizes that the Reflecting Pool saga is no longer front-page news, but he went ahead with this post for two reasons.  First, it w...

The primary reason Curmie has been relatively quiet online of late is that he and Beloved Spouse took a much-deserved (by her, at least) vac...

You may, perhaps, recall, Gentle Reader, that Curmie had a good time a couple months ago, laughing at the conservative hand-wringers who co...

Curmie has a couple of essays already in progress, but he’s going to do something a little out of the ordinary: there are ways in which this...

We can do better than this. Curmie has posted here not infrequently on the 4th of July, usually with some commentary on the significance of ...

This was intended to be the first of a handful of topics for Curmie to discuss with a paragraph or two devoted to each story.   It kinda...

OG Anunoby with the tip-in that changed everything. At the age at which one develops a lifelong relationship with a sports team, general...

Curmie did something last week that seems to have been sort of stupid: he contributed some money to a couple of charities and a couple of po...

Leen Hijaz giving her speech Last week, Curmie wrote about Jonas Hole , who gave the salutatorian address at his graduation ceremony at D’Ib...

This one is long, even by Curmie’s standards.  Buckle up. The four updates Curmie wants to write about today all concern recent news.   We...

Jonas Hole in his Junior ROTC uniform Three of Curmie’s last four blog posts touched on issues related to the trans community— what can be t...

It’s graduation season.   Curmie’s Facebook page has been awash for a fortnight or more with celebratory posts from friends who attended f...

Two nights ago there was an end-of-the-school-year band concert by students at Watertown High School in Wisconsin.  That’s hardly headline-m...

Curmie has written numerous times about variations on the theme of casting decisions for plays, movies, and television series.  In June of...

Chancellor Brandon Creighton Curmie started a piece a couple of weeks ago about the North Carolina community college whose administration de...

Curmie had an essay started, linking the bellicosity of Dear Leader and the Secretary of Drunkenness Dominionism War to Mark Twain’s bri...

Today, April 22, is Earth Day.  You wouldn’t know it from the media coverage, or rather the lack thereof, but here we are on the 56th annive...

Last October 18, at a No Kings protest in Fairhope, Alabama, sexagenarian grandmother Renae Gamble was arrested for wearing the outfit you s...

Curmie was scrolling through the “Memories” function on Facebook earlier this week and came across a post from last year, discussing (OK, br...

The latest figures from RealClear Polling suggest, unsurprisingly, that President Trump is underwater on literally every issue.  Obviously, ...

Thomas Massie Because no one should have to look at Stephen Miller This piece is a little different, because what Curmie had literally alrea...

The past few days have seen more degree program purges, with large-scale academic closures or pauses at Indiana's public universities as well as at Syracuse university .

Mark Twain  has already been lauded by Curmie for his observation that “In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he m...

It’s a little later in the season than Curmie normally writes about college basketball: we’re already into the second weekend of the NCAA ...

Henry Drummond (Billy Eugene Jones) interrogates Matthew Harrison Brady (Dakin Matthews) in the Arena Stage production of Inherit the Wind ....