Disser, Lord of the Underworld

It's prudent to make an offering to an immortal with super powers, especially an immortal armed with Brussels sprouts.

It's Monday morning again. Did you know that our calendar is deceptive--it's stuffed with hidden Mondays that show up when you least expect them. That explains why there are more Mondays than there are any other days of the week. The gods did this to us because they thought we were having too much fun.

You can defend yourself against Monday with this chocolate torte, which was posted on pccuisine.com, along with the secret formula for making it.

And here's a picture of a nice tugboat. If you've got a spare $82,000, you can take it away and give it a nice home. It has a 400hp engine, and was built in 1943, a very bad year for touring Europe or the Pacific islands. Details here, on this website.

Here's an interesting new book in which the author talks about the fragmentation of modern life, and the need for a more holistic approach to things. There's a good review of it in the Times Literary Supplement (October 22, 2010), in which the reviewer, John Cottingham, singles out an important point.

"One of the central purposes of university education," he says, "...is moral improvement; but what is often in fact promoted in place of genuine moral virtue is a kind of fastidious self-regard or "self-respect"--what MacIntyre aptly calls "a wish to be able to think well of oneself.""

Cottingham calls this a 'sinister simulacrum of true morality'.

I think I can see Jean-Paul Sartre hopping down the bunny trail to cosh the author with a copy of 'L'Etre et le Neant'.

Here's a picture of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Hopping down the bunny trail, bringing chocolate to all the good girls and boys, and Brussels sprouts to the NOT good girls and boys.

Eat your veggies!