TWO RUSSIANS AND A GIANT TALKING MANTIS: Ayn Rand. Diana Mertz Hsieh’s Noodle Food is a thoughtful blog from an Objectivist perspective. She often writes about psychology, honesty and why it’s the best policy, and childrearing. And she digs Maggie Gallagher!

Mikhail Bulgakov. I’ve added two posts to the Booklog (stuff I’ve said about stuff I’ve read): Augustine’s Confessions and Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita.

Zorak. I want to be Zorak if I grow up. The world’s coolest embittered mantis, plus news of further union suckage, at E-Pression.