A little warm-up for the Monday round-up

Victorian posy of pansiesAfter a busy Sunday (that online traffic school takes time now that my memory is no longer as absorbent as it once was) and a busy Monday morning (trying to rebuild my muscles after months of injury-caused inactivity), I’m back at my desk and raring to go.  While I’m doing that raring, here are a few things to get you going:

No one really knows why it’s there, but Bern boasts a 488 year old statue of a monstrous man eating babies.

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Bet you didn’t know that Melville’s Moby Dick was steaming hot gay porn.  But, in this amusing post, there’s proof.

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This week’s Prager University lesson is about the fact that happiness is infinitely greater when it’s earned than when we are simply handed things we, or someone else, expects will make us happy: