3 Fun Facts about Pam Bondi (besides the obvious)

Pam Bondi is the Attorney General of the United States.  Here, she is re-imagined as a stork-legged exotic bird.  Whenever I see images of her, the first thing I think of is a bird of some kind.  This doesn't really look like her face.  It looks more like a beauty pageant runner-up from Colorado.

 

That Time Jimmy Z Puked on the Ceiling (Gross but Funny)

Poor, poor Jimmy Z.

 

3 Reasons Human Space Travel is a LARP (Will Not Happen)

Here's an awesome place where we are not going.  Mars.  Read on to find out why.

10 Things to do about ICE (with a bonus #11)

Masked death squad from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gestapo unit harassing a cameraman in Chicago.  These goons are on the streets of cities across America.  What to do about them?

 

Clown College

Masked moron from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) goes to slip and fall school in Minneapolis, days after another ICE goon murdered local resident Renee Good.

 

Let's Talk About Sex Robots

Thee Optimist wrote this novel more than a decade ago, in the guise of his alter ego, the author Patrick Quinlan.  It is a thriller about mind downloading and humanoid robots.  Mind downloading is still pretty far out.  Listen to a ten-year-old podcast about these emerging technologies.

Reflections on Death (with the legendary Rutger Hauer)

Dutch actor Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, in the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner.

Doh !!!

 

Drone shot of the White House with the East Wing utterly destroyed, on October 23, 2025.

Ancient Republican gets KO'ed (by a woman's soft voice)

Senator Mitch McConnell, more than a little befuddled.

Weekend at Donnie's

"Weekend at Bernie's," a 1989 dark comedy starring Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, and Andrew McCarthy.

 

Don't Just Like It, Love It. Discover New Art From Otto Von Miller

It's almost Halloween, yeah?  Here's a Halloween-themed painting from the genius Otto Von Miller.  He refers to this character as Bo Jangle.  Bo Jangle is 2025, acrylic and chalk paint on canvas.  Read on to find more art from Otto.

 

30 Years Since "The Unabomber Manifesto"

Ted Kaczynski, also known as The Unabomber, after his arrest in 1996.  His manuscript, Industrial Society and its Future, was published by the Washington Post on September 19, 1995. 

 

Sorry, Charlie

Blowhard grifter turned martyred saint.  Professional troll Charlie Kirk, on stage at a live Utah Valley University event, seconds before he was murdered.  If you're the type who would witness him dying in uncensored horror, scroll down.  I have the clip and will place it all the way at the bottom of this post. 

 

Confabulator-in-Chief

Donald John Trump as a small child.  Many elderlies return to a childlike state as they approach the end of their lives.  HUGE head, though.  Big brain.  His hands have hardly grown at all.

Enjoy! New Art from Otto

"Disfruta!"  Pencil on paper, 2025 by Otto Von Miller. 
If time and circumstance allowed, at this juncture, Otto would likely spend most or all of his time doing art.  Click to enlarge.

China, Russia and Iran all have hypersonic missiles. The US has none. Ruh-roh?

A gleeful Vlad the Impaler superimposed in front of the new Russian Oreshnik hypersonic missile.  The Oreshnik ("hazel tree" in Russian) is thought to fly at Mach 10, or approximately 7,600 miles per hour.  It carries six warheads, and each warhead releases multiple cluster bombs.  The Russians tested an Oreshnik during the Ukraine War in November 2024.  It worked!  

 

Donald Trump is Pretty Good at Drawing

Obviously photoshopped image where The Donald holds up actual drawings he made, instead of a bill he signed into law.

 

China is Eating Our Lunch

From left to right, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Senator Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), celebrate the passage of Donald Trump's big beautiful bill, which will largely destroy green energy in the United States, and surrender the whole thing to the Chinese.

Notice how the tallest guy does the talking?  That happens a lot.  

Is Lindsey Graham picking his nose, or what?

Do You Love? To Read? Here's a Free Ebook for You. It's Easy.

SMOKED, by Patrick Quinlan. 
Discover how to get the ebook version of this novel free, for a limited time.

 

Chaos is the Whole Point

Palestinians in horror after Israelis opened fire on an aid distribution site.  The Israelis have killed hundreds of people at aid sites, in just the past several days.

Who Pulls the Donald's Strings?

The Donald is often portrayed as a marionette, manipulated by Vladimir Putin.  But there's more to the story.

 

New Art You Will Love - Proven Results! Guaranteed.

"Beach Car," acrylic on canvas, 2025 by Otto Von Miller. 
Discover more wicked cool paintings below.

Here is the DC Shooter Manifesto

Elias Rodriguez, the DC shooter, shouting, "Free, free Palestine," while being led away by cops to whatever fate awaits him.

 

"We Are Burning." Palestinian artists killed by the Israelis in Gaza

"We Are Burning," the last work by digital artist Mahasen al-Kateeb.  The image depicts the death of 19-year-old Sha'ban al-Dalou, who made headlines when he was burned alive on October 14, 2024 by an Israeli airstrike on a makeshift hospital in Gaza.  Al-Kateeb herself was killed by an Israeli airstrike four days later.  

The Ghost

The Houthis are better than us

Houthi fighters brandish their weapons (machine guns and rifles, yes, but also knives, saws and hatchets) on March 28, 2025, in Sanaa, Yemen.  Dig the gun-toting 10-year-old boy on dad's shoulders, top center-right. 

Man on Fire

"Man on Fire," acrylic on canvas, 2025. 
This is a painting by the artiste Otto Von Miller, who is also Thee Optimist. 

I Like These Tariffs

Donald Trump re-imagined as the Hindenburg Disaster.

Death By Ungawa

Twenty-three year old Michael Rockefeller, wealthy descendant of John D. Rockefeller, fusses with a camera while Papua New Guinean stone age tribesmen look on.  Rockefeller disappeared on November 19, 1961, after a canoe he was in tipped over.  All indications are he swam to shore, then was captured, killed and eaten by the local cannibals.     

That time Robert Kennedy, Jr., hit on my future ex-wife

The current US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., having a bit of fun with a dead bear cub.  Kennedy accidentally ran over the cub on a highway in upstate New York in 2014.  He kept the corpse and intended to freeze it and eat it.  But he found himself late for a flight, so he dumped the carcass in Central Park instead, hoping people would think it got run over there.  He told reporters he has "been picking up roadkill my entire life.  I have a freezer full of it."

 

Yes, USAID is a CIA front. Yes, they will probably kill Trump if he doesn't back off.

Donald Trump with a sniper's target on his head.  This image originally appeared on the cover of the February 2017 issue of the Irish magazine "Village."  It's easy to forget how much people already didn't like him back then.

Protect and Serve

"Protect and Serve," acrylic paint and pencil on canvas, 2025 Otto Von Miller.

Cat Art Brings You Joy

"Luv Kats," acrylic and chalk paint on canvas, 2024 Otto Von Miller.

Put a Happy Face on it

Death Becomes You, acrylic paint on canvas, 2024 Otto Von Miller.

UnitedHealthCare CEO Gets Re-Orged in New York

Former UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson's career came to an abrupt end on a sidewalk in midtown Manhattan. 

Who is in Charge of the United States at this Moment?

It certainly isn't this guy.

Unstrung

"Unstrung," acrylic paint on canvas, 2024 Otto Von Miller

Lips Like Sugar

Lips Like Sugar, acrylic paint on canvas, 2024 Otto Von Miller.

This Just In from CNN: Israeli War Criminal Becomes Vegetarian

 

Eliran Mizrahi, 40-year old Israeli reservist and father of four, who "fought" in Gaza, killed himself back in June.  His bulldozer mate, Guy Zaken, has become a vegetarian after running over hundreds of Palestinian bodies, "dead and alive."  "Everything squirts out," he said. 

Evolution of a Painting

 

"Number 4," by Otto Von Miller.

How Does All of This End?

 

Benjamin Netanyahu, current Prime Minister of Israel. 
This is a very bad, very dangerous man.

I Like Candidates Who Don't Get Shot

 

Presidential candidate Donald Trump at the moment an assassin's bullet hit his ear.

A Dog's Life

"Nervous Dog," acrylic paint on canvas, one of the very first art works by Otto Von Miller.  Was it beginner's luck?

Click here to buy this artwork on Etsy.

That Time Jimi Hendrix Predicted Climate Change

The Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1967.  From left to right, drummer Mitch Mitchell, bass player Noel Redding, and mystical shaman Jimi Hendrix.

Miles Davis in Paris

Miles Davis, photographed in 1957, the year he went to Paris and recorded the soundtrack for the French film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

The original 1959 cover of Kind of Blue, by Miles Davis.  Interestingly (if you're Thee Optimist), the cover has the song list on it.  Later covers list the star-studded lineup of musicians who participated in the recording.

And the Band Played On

The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays during the 2022 Highland Park Fourth of July parade.  At first, the musicians didn't hear the gunfire, and kept playing while terrified paradegoers ran past.  Watch the video below. 

Enter Thee Judges

The six conservative members of the United States Supreme Court emerge to announce their ruling on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the landmark decision ending federal protection for a woman's right to obtain an abortion.  Nah, just joking.  It's the Taliban.  They issue similar rulings.

The South Will Fall. Again.

Thomas D. Rice, a white entertainer in blackface, depicted as his popular minstrel slave character "Jim Crow," circa 1830s.

Did You Find Your AI Soulmate Yet?

Look familiar?  This woman does not exist.  She was generated by an artificial intelligence that combines random human features, based on parameters you set.  The parameters I set, in this case, were "beautiful" "female" "young adult" and "joyful."  This pic makes me uncomfortable.  Generate your own fake humans at Generated Photos.