Don’t you know protein wisdom makes its first appearance on Blog Watch II, cementing the places of its contributors within the ranks of this century’s most important thinkers, artists, scientists, and philanthropists. Lay a garland upon the heads of those brave souls who fight beside us, for surely they are kings among men — and so! fresh horses and blankets for everyone! More wine, more women!

Jay Zilber has a nice little piece on his “Mind Over What Matters” site about his own (post-9/11) budding right-wingedness (though it’s not clear he’s ready to admit to it quite yet). Still, like Augustine penning his confessions, Jay spends a good chunk o’ space poring over incriminating spots of time, folksy patches from a Lefty past… Me? Rightward? Yipe. Whatever you do, don’t tell my mom — an unreconstructed