Info-tainers Faking Journalism

San Jose, CA – The Almost Daily Binx, V.A. Caminiti
It was Sunday night and the sunset was the backdrop for some light reading and a cocktail before deciding what to do for dinner.   We opted for light fare and decided to watch (or at least skim through) some of the Sunday morning news talk that [...]

Insurance is NOT the Prescription for American Poor Health

The Almost Daily Binx, San Jose-CA, V.A.Caminiti – [Second in a series]
Public Safety / Public Health
…capitalism mutated in the very same way as we encouraged the banking industry to strip safeguards
Can you imagine if you had to be insured to receive basic police services?  How about clean water?  Sewer?  What if you dialed 911 and [...]

Merging and Purging : A Developing Story

by V.A. Caminiti
The merge lane was marked very clearly and visible from both the freeway and the meter controlled entrance.  Not a law, but in actuality, instructions for conduct.  So why is this guy in the blue pick-up truck hugging the bumper of the car in front of him? Why isn’t he permitting me to [...]

The Right Continues to Get It Wrong

by V.A. Caminiti, The Almost Daily Binx

Enough Inhofe
Don’t believe for second that the criticism launched by Sen. Inhofe while standing on foreign soil against sitting US President Barack Obama was an gaffe.  However, consider it not only an act of enormous un-American tenor; but also revealing of the desperation and reckless mindset of the [...]

The ‘Right’ Wronging America

Two of Forty-eight
It has been just two months since Barack Obama has been inaugurated as our Nation’s 44th President and just two months since the remnants of the most extreme ideologues of the Republican Party have reacted in a most bizarre combination of panic, jingoism and un-American behavior. To the untrained eye, it appears [...]

Lou Dobbs CNN Crew: The Magpies of Media

The journo-tainment industry may not be factually relevant or inspire an intellectual curiosity … but it sure does sell soap powder and create a compulsion to stay tuned.  After all, when Lou Dobbs says he will be right back to smirk about how pathetic Congress is … right after the toilet bowl cleaner commercial … [...]

Obama Stepping Up – Bush Falling Down – Media Doing Schtick

Obama making strides – corporate media on suicide watch – nothing to report – not much interest in reporting on Bush final daze.

John McCain: The ‘Low-Information’ Candidate

McCain treats the campaign as though it were war. Any means to his end.

McCain: The Accidental Manchurian Candidate *Updated*

McCain campaign off the rails and desperate. The Congregation of hate.

Campaigns are Presidential Auditions – McCain Struggling

The McCain audition not going so well.