Chris Moss Online

I put this together as a “trailer” to the vacation video that I am working on from our Hawaii trip earlier this year. This is my first ever attempt at video editing.

Photography is one of my passions, and Flickr.com is one of my favorite websites. One can spend hours getting lost in the photostreams there.
Here is a link to the photo stream of the official campaign photographer for Barack Obama. There are some fantastic shots there which seem to me to be not only very historic, but a rare glimpse into the more intimate details of the life of the president-elect and his family.

The photo posted above is particularly intriguing, as it appears to be a photo of Barack Obama watching John McCain’s stirring concession speech.

This brings back fond memories of my time working for a congressional candidate and creating a photo stream for her.

Yeah! That’s what we need right now…so people can keep driving their Hummers and not feel bad about retirees in Chicago who can’t afford the cost to heat their homes. No other problems:

AP Investigation: Ike environmental toll apparent

In the days before and after the deadly storm, companies and residents reported at least 448 releases of oil, gasoline and dozens of other substances into the air and water and onto the ground in Louisiana and Texas. The hardest hit places were industrial centers near Houston and Port Arthur, Texas, as well as oil production facilities off Louisiana’s coast, according to the AP’s analysis.

Something made me think to record the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. This show used to be hysterical - a very long time ago. It has had its moments from time to time, and this is one of them.

This is not posted for its humor or its biting poignancy. This is posted as a reminder that during the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush damned Al Gore for not having brought the perpetrators of the 1998 embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania to justice. 7 years after 9/11/01, George W. Bush and the hawks in his administration have failed to find the world’s most wanted man, who is also the world’s tallest Arab. Our country is rampant with hypocrisy, which usually takes the form of someone condemning another for something they themselves have done. George W. Bush condemned someone for something, and then later did the same thing, only under much more serious circumstances. Hypocrisy of this magnitude is, I think, unforgiveable.