A little note of Appreciation to AlterNet.....

What Happens When Angry Citizens Crash the Gates of America's CEO Class?
Mark Ames, Playboy.com
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: They chicken out at the last minute. Recounting the doomed bus tour of AIG executives' posh homes in Connecticut.

The Swine Flu Crisis Lays Bare the Meat Industry's Monstrous Power
Mike Davis, Comment Is Free
Health and Wellness: Animal husbandry now more closely resembles the petrochemical industry than the happy family farm

Some of Us Still Think They Can Get Rich Quick from the Real Estate Bubble
By Joseph Huff-Hannon, New York Press
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A visit to a packed real estate seminar on how to "get paid to buy a house" reveals that the bubble mindset still hasn't popped.

Washington's Best Kept Secret: McCain-Feingold Works
Meredith McGehee, Campaign Legal Center Blog
Democracy and Elections: It’s been seven years since the McCain-Feingold bill was passed, yet the measure is still the subject of a massive amount of disinformation.

It was an aggressively ugly bus: a belching, decrepit hulk with dented corrugated aluminum siding. The perfect Country Club Assault Vehicle for terrorizing the upper-class plutocrats we were going to visit.

Poor Joe Dinkin was put in charge of the seating arrangement -- the minute he stepped off the bus, the reporters nearly tore him limb from limb. He dragged himself away from the bus door and down the street; the reporters clung to him like lions pulling down a struggling wildebeest. Joe tried to impose order as the reporters yelled out their organizations and why they had to be on the bus -- New York Times, CNN, New York Post, NBC. Poor Joe trembled so badly that all he could manage was to jot down a few chicken scratches on a piece of paper. He quickly lost control, as the reporters turned back to the bus and tried storming it again. Chaos ensued, and eventually the organizers realized that it was between the protesters being on the bus, or the media being on the bus. So one by one, they started pulling protesters off the bus to make room for the media. Eventually we -- media types -- all got our seats.