Lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living

Britney, or, The New Heloïse

For my part, I am convinced that it would be as easy to change a blonde into a brunette as a fool into a man of genius.

— Rousseau

Britney Spears has changed her hair color In other Britney news, nice to see the Daily Mail targetting her for a bit of health-as-discipline propaganda.

“On the highest physical good”

Given this blog’s title, it seems appropriate to quote Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View:

But in this judging of laziness, one can often do much wrong to a human being. For nature has also wisely placed the aversion to continuous work in many a subject, an instinct that is beneficial both to the subject and to others … for, if laziness did not intervene, indefatigable malice would comit far more ill in the world than it does now.