I’ve been working on a new site called Defense Procurement News with my brother Dag. Please check it out.

If you want to know why Ron Paul is the best candidate in the race today, just read “Pimp My Ride” by Tucker Carlson. Tucker spent a couple of days on the road with Ron, and liked what he saw.

So, it looks like Circuit City is going down the tubes. All I can say, is that it couldn’t happen to a better company. When I first saw the story earlier this year that Circuit City was firing higher paid employees to replace them with lower paid ones, I immediately stopped going there. It appears I wasn’t alone in making this choice. Now, Circuit City seems set to reap what it has sown. Good.

You can tell Twitter has arrived when writers like Michael Krigman start arguing that it is a danger to corporate information security. In a post titled Twitter is Dangerous, Michael Krigman states that “Twitter is rapidly becoming a serious threat to corporate information protection.” For example, he suggests a person twittering during a meeting could release valuable information to thousands of people. His solution, IT should “be prepared to strongly enforce information-sharing policies. If confidential information is being shared, even innocently, question the judgment of the sharer.” Having read a lot of tweets, I’m not sure information sharing is the main issue corporations should have with Twitter. I think it’s much much more likely to cause HR issues

Check out the comments on this (non) story entitled ZDNet Forcing IPhone Users to Dumbed Down Mobile Website on Mac Daily News. The conspiracy theories, interlaced with abuse, are just insane. As usual, there’s also massive confusion between Ziff-Davis and ZDNet, but I’m used to that. Sometimes, I just despair.

Ron Paul is the Cato of our time: a man who favors principles over political success. That alone is enough to give him my support. I could give a lot more reasons, though, but Andrew Sullivan has done it far more eloquently than I can in this post.

Cleveland has managed to keep winning. It was only 8-0, but the important thing was that they are still in the playoff hunt. Even better, Pittsburgh lost. So, Cleveland has a realistic chance of winning the division. For more on the win, see Bitter Fans.

Robert Scoble has a post on preparing for the coming recession in 2008. My take is that a recession has been likely since early in 2007, and it became inevitable with the credit crunch of late August, 2007. In any event, I think his advice is coming a little late. In particular, his suggestion to make sure that you are in the top 10% of employees to avoid a lay-off. If you aren’t in the top 10% already, I doubt you are capable of just turning it on now. The truth is, the people who are going to be ready for a coming recession are already prepared. Last minute changes of lifestyle aren’t going to be enough.

If you wonder where the economy is going in 2008, you can start here: Too Much Like 1929. It’s going to be a cruel year.

Articles like this one in the New York Times continue to make me nervous about where the food I eat is coming from. It’s like an Asian version of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. The real problem I face in avoiding food like this, though, is when I eat at cheap restaurants. The workers often have no idea where the food comes from, but you can be sure it is somewhere cheap. It’s almost enough to start making me bring lunch to work.