This article, featured in the March issue of O’Dwyer’s, asks a question that affects everyone in today’s economic climate yet is often overlooked: why are the most affordable foods in the U.S. always the ones that are bad for you?

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Our top news networks are co-opting the lowest, most sensationalistic denominators of celebrity and gossip news in a desperate attempt to lure viewers, resulting in an aesthetic that lies somewhere between a performance art installation and the lost scenes from a Felini film.

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In this new essay I show that every Republican leader of the past 35 years has consistently worked to expand the presence of government at every level, contrary to their constituency’s core party ‘values.’

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Here’s the first feature article I wrote for the newly re-launched O’Dwyer’s magazine. I prove many of the same U.S. corporations touting popular “green” initiatives are simultaneously funding anti-climate trade groups to sway public opinion as well as D.C. lobbyists to push polluter-friendly legislation.

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Democracy took a dive on Thursday after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that corporations may now spend unlimited amounts of money to support or oppose the Congressional or Presidential candidates of their choosing.

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150 more magazine titles were shuttered than launched in 2009, according to a tally by magazine database resource and directory publisher Oxbridge Communications. In total, 428 magazines were shut down in 2009 while 275 were launched.

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Skipping the traditional Craigslist route in the attempt to keep things within my circle of friends. For rent is one huge bedroom in Williamsburg, Brooklyn available Nov. 1, maybe sooner depending on my move-out date.

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Opponents of health care reform have made a hilarious about-face in the past year. In 12 months they’ve managed to reposition themselves from vanguards of “the best system of care in the world,” to a noticeably more demure standing, complete with blanket admissions of a “broken system” along with conciliatory promises to fix it.

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NYC CD release this Friday. 9/11

It occurred to us that we should probably host an event to commemorate the official release of the amazing CD we now have for sale. 9/11 seemed like a day apt for the commemorative stamp so we figured we’d use it. Instant heroes. Consider it done.

Friday, September 11, 2009, Methodist will be officially releasing its debut record, produced by Alex Newport (At the Drive In, Death Cab for Cutie, System of a Down). The show will be at Bar Matchless. Opening the show will be our friends COBRETTI and our enemies ARROWS.

Bar Matchless is located at 557 Manhattan Ave. (corner of Driggs & Manhattan) in Greenpoint Brooklyn. G train to Nassau or the L train to Bedford.

The show starts at 9 and is $7. We’ll have t-shirts and CDs for sale. No shit.

Self-titled. Six songs. Produced by Alex Newport. Easily the best musical offering in the past 25 years. I stake my reputation on it.

As if things couldn’t get any better (go on!) you can now buy this album online via Paypal - safe, secure and fast. I won’t even have access to your bank/credit card information. That’s a good thing.

All proceeds fund our “re-birther movement,” a radical political platform that believes President Obama was created in a lab by Jewish lesbian abortion doctors funded by the healthcare lobby to rile rednecks across the nation into baseless conspiracy theories should the popular vote go to a black man.

To buy this CD for $8 ($7 for CD + $1 for s/h) please click the Paypal button below. I need the money.