This was Harambe.  He was a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo.  He was shot and killed, ostensibly to sa...

At the end of each year (starting now), we present Thee Optimist Awards to three (or more, or less) people who made a name for themselves ...

According to Donald Trump, way back in 2008, Hillary Clinton got "schlonged" by Barack Obama.  She doesn't look happy about ...

This is a photo of five cheese factory workers in Omsk, which is a city in Siberia.  The men got drunk, took off all their clothes, and h...

Coming to a public place near you - Elliot Rodger, the so-called Virgin Killer of California.  There's plenty more where he came from....

I wish I had one of these flags.

So long, big guy.  Has this man been the best President of our lifetimes?

A sexy muscle woman poses, for reasons unexplained, in front of the visually appealing, polluted, putrid, and mostly abandoned Salton Sea ...

Voracious eater.  Violent predator.  Copious fornicator and rapid reproducer.   Clever, highly adaptable, hardy, rugged, and resilient.  ...

This is Walter Palmer.  He is the newly famous dentist who killed Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe.  The blinding white smile and pricey X-ray l...

Take Hunter Thompson.  Add crazy.  Has this man written the funniest novel ever?

If this looks stupid, that's just because it is.

Ah.  The psychotic religious fanatics called ISIS.  So what have those guys been up to? 

Once upon a time, pop star Kanye West said an amazing, powerful, courageous thing.  Since then, he has said many, many dumb things.  Below...

Senegalese health worker preparing to treat Ebola patient.  Senegal has eradicated Ebola from within its borders.

The sad, sad faces of soon-to-be former teachers Rachel Respess (left) and Shelley Dufresne (right) at their police bookings for unlawful ...

The transformation of Charla Nash, who was badly mauled by Travis, a friend's pet chimpanzee, back in 2009.

It's big, it's beautiful, it has lots of pretty colors.  The iPhone 6 is here, which means it's time for an upgrade.  But what...

It's funny, but we're really going, if these guys get their way...

A critical shortage of quality breast implants has hit Venezuela, demonstrating once again the short-sighted folly of socialism.

ISIS fighters (about to execute some poor schmuck in a jacket and a tie) are bad news in so many ways.  They are so bad, in fact, that the...

She's gonna git ya!

Suge Knight got shot.  Again.  Sometimes I worry about Suge.  I wonder how he's making ends meet.  Is he getting enough to eat? 

The Triumph of Death , by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, circa 1562

Bad things are happening with the Ebola virus.  And if the current pattern continues, the bad things are about to get a whole lot worse. ...

Remember this guy?  That should have been enough to scare you away from the military.  

The first openly gay player has been drafted into the NFL.  Is everybody ready?

Clayton Lockett was killed by the state of Oklahoma on Tuesday in a botched, 40-minute execution that observers said "looked like tor...

Here's a nice photo of a tourist in New York City posing with a couple of friendly(ish) young cops.  Recently, the New York Police De...

Things have gotten very, very bad for the good guys.   What can we do to save ourselves?

This man is very pleased with himself.  His name is Cliven Bundy, and he is a terrorist.

Ukrainian Member of Parliament (MP) Igor Miroshnichenko and some of his buddies beat the acting director of the national TV channel becaus...

He calls himself Mustang Wanted.  He's a young Ukrainian daredevil with a short future ahead of him.

No peeking, Lady Justice!  You're supposed to be blind.

The Killing Kittens sex club from England is coming to the United States.  Did you get your invitation yet?  

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has accused the CIA of blocking a Senate investigation into the CIA's use of torture at secret pr...

James Otis Thach is a children's books author and compulsive writer of fake Amazon reviews.   He is taking the art form of writing fak...

A photo of a Chinese fashion model.

This man's name is Zbigniew Brzezinski.  He can tell you everything you need to know about why Russia invaded Crimea.  He wrote the bo...

This shifty-eyed man is clearly the enemy of the American people.

This guy?  I love this guy.

A sign placed in the window of Rocco's Little Chicago Pizzeria in Tucson, Arizona, after Arizona legislators voted to pass SB 1062, a ...

Republicans are fighting to deny extended unemployment benefits to millions of Americans.  In Sarasota, Florida, this is one of the better...

The eye of God?  Not really.  More like a nebula in outer space, as photographed by the Hubble telescope.

Git yr guns!  Capital One has decided they can send in the shock troops.

Oh, the humanity.  Bruce Jenner appearing in public after having surgery to reduce the size of his Adam's Apple.  Critics have suggest...

Even though labels are for soup cans, if you'd like to choose a new gender label for yourself, Facebook will now give you 58 different...

This is the cover to the ebook version of my novel, The Hit.  The ebook is a FREE download on Kindle this weekend, February 15 and 16.

Ready?  Let's begin.

A suicide bombing trainer accidentally blew up himself, and his entire class of trainees, at a remote camp outside Baghdad earlier this we...

Did he or didn't he?  In this photo from the 1980s, here's (from left to right), Woody Allen, Fletcher Farrow, some guy doing an e...