A cartoon from 1233.

I'm fascinated by the school lesson material at the U.K. National Archive site. That cartoon is from one titled "A Medieval Mystery...

Why are gun-death statistics inflated with gun-suicide numbers?

"I thought we had a right to die...." Obviously, one reason is: to get bigger numbers. But I think the people that lump gun deaths...

"I haven't been a black conservative since 1995..."

Glenn Loury talks about people he's known for 40 years who won't say hello, who won't look him in the eye because he USED TO BE ...

Mark-of-the-beast tag for school kids.

"Plaintiff's objection to wearing the Smart ID badge without a chip is clearly a secular choice, rather than a religious concern....

Dancing with the Devil... for Christmas...

... in simpler times: "I'm not completely convinced that your intentions are honorable."

Goodbye to Sherman Hemsley.

Here 's an obituary. I was looking for a great "All in the Family" or "Jeffersons" clip, but I found this "Twil...

Is theft of a "Vote Satan" sign a hate crime?

"We are Satanists… Satanists," said Luigi Bellaviste. Luigi and Angie Bellaviste belong to the Church of Satan. They even have a S...

When Satan set his sights on America, the place were he was "most successful and first successful was in academia."

Said Rick Santorum in that 2008 speech at Ava Maria University. I've lived in that purported stronghold of Satan for the last quarter c...

Satanorum, can we ignore 'im?

Everybody's talking about Satan, Satan and Santorum. I tried to ignore 'em. Back in 2008, Santorum said: "This is a spiritual ...

James Taranto has a question and a prediction about social conservatism.

The question: If liberal baby boomers stubbornly refuse to see the damage that their idea of "progress" has wrought, what about yo...

11/11/11!

What will you do with all the eleventosity today? Something special at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m.? Are you going to keep talking about turning it u...

Satan sandwich!

That's another meme... another phrase that will stick with us as we stumble forward into 2012: A fantastic bit of rhetoric from an enrag...

"Where is the 9,000-foot cow?"/"What do you think about Satan?"/"What did James Madison think about video games?"

Justice Ginsburg lists the strangest questions asked last term at oral argument. "From the foregoing samples, you may better understand...

"UW-Madison has been shackled by the UW System from the time it was merged with the UW System."

Says one UW professor at the faculty senate meeting yesterday. In the end, there was a vote in favor of the plan. Although Gov. Scott Walker...

"I checked with my Lord and Savior - Satan - and he told me that he doesn't want Matt to win."

Ha ha.

"I’ve been near God, but I’ve also been near the devil."

"God won."

"Whores. Whores! Whores! Look around you. Look around you. Do you see what's happening?"

"In our town. In our very homes! You know who I'm talking about. You know! You know what's going on in that house! Vice! Perver...

Today's Drudgedy... Drudge comedy.

Eyes... bucks... Not sure what Drudge is driving at here. Some strange coded message to Ohio ? And why show the front and not the back of t...

"We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party."

The Democrats are trying to figure out the best way to scare the bejeezus out of you. Really, where did the Tea Party come from? Suddenly, ...

Christine O'Donnell: " I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into witchcraft."

She said that in 1999. I don't know when the dabbling itself took place. It bugs me more that she says "dabbled into" than th...