Just a typical day in Wuhan, China.  Man relaxing in a local park, not a care in the world.  Little does he know that medical experts are ...

Lil McGill gets stoned and engages in some carpentry.  Barbie loves how her new Dream House comes out.

Hurry up and wait.  On May 22, 2019, dozens of people endure the hours-long line to reach the summit of Mount Everest.  Up here, in the so...

When I was a young man, I worked briefly with the elvish Doug Osheroff, a Nobel Prize winning scientist who taught me something about myse...

Your mind is like a powerful magnet.

Thee Optimist knows all about The Law of Attraction.  Yes he does.

A wild seal dog.  Well, not really.  Just somebody's dog wrapped in a blanket like a burrito.

French toast is delicious!  But it can take a while to make, especially when you get distracted by, uh... other things.  Watch video below...

Ray Kurzweil is among the smartest humans.  He takes great joy in making predictions.  The things he predicts appear to make him happy, bu...

Wasp.  Ever get stung by one of these things?  I have.  Ouch!  Okay?  I thought I was having a heart attack.  I never want to be stung by ...

Alex Chiu has been selling his magnetic immortality rings online since the early days of the internet. He's still at it, and is stayin...

Artists are forever seeking ways to unleash their creativity.  Altered states of consciousness are one way to do it.  And sometimes the r...

A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back.  You can never look back."

Ripe and ready.  Just like you are.

Donald Trump as Pinocchio, the wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.  The Donald is wrestling with the the Truth, and the Truth...

Rod Coronado has spent six years in prison for his actions on behalf of animals. Interview by  Brian Whitney Rod Coronado is one of t...

A young woman cries at a Beatles concert in 1965.  Hordes of weeping, screaming female fans were a prominent feature of the early Beatles ...

For homeless outreach workers, hardcore alcoholics are some of the most difficult people to get off the streets. 

Gaze upon this lovely, glowing white person.  Now say bye-bye.

Remember  Chemtrails ?  This was the early-2000s era conspiracy theory that there were mysterious government airplanes in the sky, sprayin...

Gil Scott-Heron, one of the fathers of rap music.  He said a lot of things.  One of the things he said was: "All the dreams you show ...

I thought I'd put a graphic here illustrating how industrial Carbon Sequestration is supposed to work.  But it was too complicated, an...

The sun is our enemy.  We can't turn it off, but we can make it dimmer.

Remember this guy?  Michael Avenatti, the man who fell to Earth.

The United States is about to get its first full-fledged fascist President.  Everybody is excited, one way or the other.  As the situation...

Send in the clowns.  Scary, ignorant people like Marsha Blackburn are almost funny, except they vote on things that affect our lives and t...

There's no such thing as Global Warming.  Right? Let me ask you a question. Why bother writing about Climate Change, or Globa...

I made an innocent post about chimpanzees and bonobos on this blog.  Two years later, some men's rights activists became offended by i...

A woman stands on the Palestinian side of the Gaza Strip wall in Israel. Could the Donald build a similar wall between the US and Mexico? ...

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!