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."