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 h...

Poor, poor Jimmy Z.  

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

Masked death squad from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gestapo unit harassing a cameraman in Chicago.  These goons are on the...

Masked moron from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) goes to slip and fall school in Minneapolis, days after another ICE goon murdere...

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 mi...

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

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

Senator Mitch McConnell, more than a little befuddled.

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

It's almost Halloween, yeah?  Here's a Halloween-themed painting from the genius Otto Von Miller.  He refers to this character as Bo...

Ted Kaczynski, also known as The Unabomber, after his arrest in 1996.  His manuscript, Industrial Society and its Future , was published by ...

Blowhard grifter turned martyred saint.  Professional troll Charlie Kirk, on stage at a live Utah Valley University event, seconds before he...

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....

"Disfruta!"   Pencil on paper, 2025 by Otto Von Miller.  If time and circumstance allowed, at this juncture, Otto would likely spe...

A gleeful Vlad the Impaler superimposed in front of the new Russian Oreshnik hypersonic missile.  The Oreshnik ("hazel tree" in Ru...

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

From left to right, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Senator Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Senator Lindsey ...

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

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

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

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

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

"We Are Burning," the last work by digital artist Mahasen al-Kateeb.  The image depicts the death of 19-year-old Sha'ban al-Da...

Houthi fighters brandish their weapons (machine guns and rifles, yes, but also knives, saws and hatchets) on March 28, 2025, in Sanaa, Yemen...

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

Donald Trump re-imagined as the Hindenburg Disaster.

Twenty-three year old Michael Rockefeller, wealthy descendant of John D. Rockefeller, fusses with a camera while Papua New Guinean stone age...

The current US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., having a bit of fun with a dead bear cub.  Kennedy accidentall...

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 ma...

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

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

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

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

It certainly isn't this guy.

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

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

  Eliran Mizrahi, 40-year old Israeli reservist and father of four, who "fought" in Gaza, killed himself back in June.  His bulldo...

  "Number 4," by Otto Von Miller.

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

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

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

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

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

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.  L...

The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band plays during the 2022 Highland Park Fourth of July parade.  At first, the musicians didn't hear the gunf...

The six conservative members of the United States Supreme Court emerge to announce their ruling on  Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Org...

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

Look familiar?  This woman does not exist.  She was generated by an artificial intelligence that combines random human features, based on pa...