What do you do when your boss is a bully?

I feel like my boss is bullying me, not all the time but probably 70% of the time. He's an elderly man in his 60s and is very set in his ways. He's not used to all the modern technology and quite frankly I don't think he really understands it.

I can't get on with my partner's spoiled daughter

I have been with my partner for 6 years now. I love him very much and want to spend the rest of my life with him. The real problem I have though is his spoiled 14 year old daughter and the fact that we just don't get along.

Leave me alone, I don't want to talk to you

What has the global village done to individual social responsibility and the respect for others privacy? Encouraged way too much interaction/introduction when clearly not needed or requested. I don't want to be everyone's friend.

Dog fouling - my town is now one big dog toilet!

I'm sick and tired of lazy dog owners and the way they allow their dogs to foul the footpaths in the town where I live. In the last few years they have rapidly transformed the place into one great big dog toilet!

January Sales - tis the season to be folly!

Let's be honest, some people are plain bonkers, aren't they? Come the January sales, cash strapped shoppers tend to throw caution to the wind and buy the most hideous, pointless tat they wouldn't otherwise dream of buying.

jerks.

i can’t understand why people can be such jerks.  why can’t people just say whats going on in their mind instead of playing stupid games with people making them think there is something wrong with YOU and that YOU are the one with the problem. well no actually,no i’m not the one with the problem… [...]

A rant about whingers.

Some would say a rant is a moan but that’s just not true is it a rant is a man at the end of his tether so much so that he would  punch a fucking door but it would wake his dame. Fuck them all I say these moaners and whiners, these people who have this [...]

Environmental 2

I can’t escape the fucking nutters! Making a cup of coffee i notice a picture of a foot on my bag of sugar and the caption “reducing with the carbon trust”. there’s another bit informing me to cut down on Co2 by filling my kettle with only the water i need! What the shitting fuck has it [...]

I hate mac’s!

Mac’s are a bag o shite. Seriously i’m no windows fangirl but if you choose a mac over a pc i think you’re a idiot. Macs are tempremental and slow. They only do certain actions for what you have told them to do,like a pretentious moron. Also working in graphics you need to use photoshop [...]

f’ing global warming

Global warming yeah right, one of those carbon cunt-sultants should come and sit in my front room because I am freezing my bollocks off. I suppose the smug tosser would inform me that this cold snap is obvious proof that we are tampering with mother earth – well fuck off. I am old enough to [...]

Final Shot Fired in California Pension Transparency Battle?

"Stolen Valor" Case Poses Free Speech Test

Did Brown Cell Out Privacy Rights?

Occupy Movement Raises Thorny First Amendment Issues

Supreme Court Bludgeons California Video-Game Law

Six Essential SEO Strategies for Bloggers

Bloggers can never get enough advice about SEO. This is a guest post by Chrisian Arno at Lingo24. Six Essential SEO Strategies for Bloggers When a blog forms part of your marketing strategy, you need to be confident your words will reach the right people. With search engines constantly refining their algorithms, not to mention the huge amount of information competing for your readers, this can seem like an impossible task. Here are six strategies that can help you regain your confidence with SEO. Do Your Research If you are someone who dashes off blog posts when inspiration strikes, slow...

Blogging Without Dates - The pros, the cons and meeting in the middle

This is a guest post by Linda Dessau of ContentMasteryGuide.com In his October 2011 post about why you no longer need a blog (in the traditional sense), John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing predicts that soon our content will "no longer be consumed in chronological fashion." When Jim Connolly of Internet Marketing Jam explored the question of why people remove dates from their blog posts, in the end, he came to the conclusion that for his blog, the benefits far outweighed any risks. What are the pros of blogging without dates? What benefits did Jim Connolly see? People were spending...

Pitching to bloggers - the do’s and don’ts of blogger pitching

This is a guest post by Kristy Shaw of Punch Communications. Pitching to bloggers… the do’s and don’ts of blogger pitching Life as a PR has certainly changed over the last few years; with the rise in popularity of blogs it has meant having to adapt the way I pitch to different types of media. Bloggers can be just as influential as many print publications and therefore should always be on PR agencies radars. Pitching to bloggers is a world away from traditional pitches to journalists; there are many more things to take into account. For example, in contrast to...

Two Tips for Generating More Leads on Your Business Blog

Recently I joined the Social Media Biz School as an instructor. In the video below, I share a couple of the business blogging tips to give you a taste of the kind of strategies, tactics, tips and tools you'll be learning in the free 27 minute webinar on demand: How to Generate More Leads with Social Media... [Can't see the video in your blog reader? Click here to watch on YouTube.] You can get instant access to the free webinar here. Your instructors are: Viveka von Rosen (LinkedIn), Lori Gama (Twitter), Andrea Vahl (Facebook), Lou Bortone (Online Video) and me...

The BIG SEO Secret for Bloggers

This is a guest post by Adam Stetzer of Hubshout. The BIG SEO Secret for Bloggers I talk to bloggers just about every day. For a while last year my blogging blog was on page 1 for the Google search "blogging", though we are now on page 3. With this type of exposure comes some crazy organic traffic. In fact, over 39,000 bloggers have registered with my blog since I opened it in 2007. With each passing year I am continually amazed by just how many bloggers are convinced that there is a BIG SEO secret out there. The conversations...

Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillance of Employees

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This Week on Honesty Without Fear

New IRS regulation is no help to whistleblowers

Interns play vital role in whistleblower advocacy

Why I Work for Racial Justice

ACLU Sues U.S. for Information on Targeted Killing Program

No Gaming the System When it Comes to Title IX

Some Observations on Voter Registration in Florida

Will Congress Take Privacy Out of Your Netflix Queue?

News Digest 2/1/12

2/1, Josh Levy, Save the Internet, A Push for Privacy in the Wake of the Carrier IQ Controversy 2/1, Rose Aguilar, TruthOut, What Does the Activism Surrounding SOPA Reveal About the Future of Online Organizing? 2/1, Jacob Witte, Iowa State Daily, Obama no better than Bush concerning civil liberties 2/1, Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, ACLU [...]

Stanley Cup-winning goalie skips White House ceremony because “government has grown out of control”

Last week, Boston Bruins goalkeeper Tim Thomas decided not to attend a ceremony at the White House that honored his team’s Stanley Cup championship. Why? I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. [...]

News Digest 2/1/12

1/31, Faiza Patel and Elizabeth Goitein, New York Times, It’s Time to Police the N.Y.P.D. 1/31, James Bridgman, The Hampshire Gazette , A look back 1/31, Christopher Calabrese, ACLU, Will Congress Take Privacy Out of Your Netflix Queue? 1/31, Andy Worthington, Eurasia Review, Obama Considers Repatriating Foreign Prisoners From Bagram – OpEd 1/30, Rep. John [...]

Unlawful detention suit dismissed in name of national security

José Padilla, convicted terrorist and United States citizen, alleged in a lawsuit that he was detained unconstitutionally and without due process.  The Fourth Circuit Court dismissed the suit, which named former and current Secretaries of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Leon Panetta as defendants, thus protecting executive decisions from judicial scrutiny. Padilla claims that he was unlawfully detained and [...]

Report highlights social and economic consequences of S-COMM in Los Angeles

A new report prepared by UC Irvine School of Law highlights the human costs and counterproductive consequences of the misleadingly named Secure Communities (S-COMM) program in Los Angeles County. Launched in 2008 and operated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), S-COMM requires police agencies to submit to the FBI the fingerprints of all suspects they detain, including [...]