With the federal government about to get much larger, the biggest swarm of consultants, "Beltway Bandits" and the like are already starting to infiltrate the Washington, DC area, home of the US government and your favorite defrag company. They're looking for a piece of the stimulus pie and anythi...

Today on The Bigg Success Show , we were honored to have Deb Neuman as our guest. Deb is the host of the Back to Business Radio Show, talk radio for small business owners on WVOM, the Voice of Maine News Talk Network. Deb was recently named Small Business Journalist of the Year for Maine and New Eng...

There weren’t a lot of films being previewed at this year’s WonderCon, but buried among the big names like Star Trek and Watchmen was a little sci-fi movie you may not have heard of before… which is a shame as it may just end up being the most interesting one of the bunch.  Pandor...

English goalie Ben Foster of Manchester United, having to defend his goal during a penalty shoot-out, watched footage of opposing players taking penalties before the dueling started. Manchester United won 4-1 in penalties, thanks in large part to Foster’s save. I call that being prepared for a...

“I want to author things that both restructure worlds and make living people feel stuff.” So wrote the late David Foster Wallace to his editor during the composition of the mammoth novel Infinite Jest. Part mission statement, part expression of his dissatisfaction with what he viewed as ...

Tough love: Nadya Suleman's mom denied her babysitting services; Christian Bale's tantrums get one celebrity hot and Mr. T has a message for unemployed pansies. Nadya Suleman's mother is so over babysitting Nadya's original six kids so she can visit the other eight. She also thinks the kids should b...

There has been a flurry of activity among supporters of Glendene Grant’s search for her missing daughter.  This morning many of us received an email alert from Glendene about a disturbing discovery in Albuquerque New Mexico.  Read it here. In short, two and a half weeks ago, hikers stumbled ...

I still cannot figure out what she took this pic. Then again, I mean shit, is this THAT bad? (don’t answer) This was actually taken POST sons (the last 2). It was recently determined that she may have gone to Brazil because people in the states knew she just had a kid a couple [...]...

On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) bl...

Do you remember this old saying, “Haste makes waste?” It certainly rolls off the tongue. But we wonder – is it still true? ___ ___ We hear all the time that we have to move fast today to gain, and maintain, a competitive advantage. So it may seem that the old saying has become outd...