Big Sole Blog (BSB)

We don't want no sequestration. We don't want no harmful goals. Close the chasm 'tween rich and poor. Leaders leave our net alone. Hey! Leaders! Leave that net alone! All in all it's just another trick. We're appalled. All in all you're just another brick in the wall. These lines play off Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall." © 2013 Nordette Adams

I saw this photo of President Obama in a Huffington Post slide show of best political pictures. It's captioned as:A light shines behind President Barack Obama as he speaks during a campaign event at Bayliss Park, Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, during a three day campaign bus tour through Iowa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Knowing that the president has been promoting solar energy,

The video above shows Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain in a pickle again, having to defend President Obama to the fringier folks of the Republican base. The first clip is from a 2008 neeting when a McCain supporter says then-candidate Obama is an Arab. The second clip comes from footage of a McCain Town Hall meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, held this year, 2013.First a

" type="audio/mpeg" /> " Amber Holcomb's rendition of "My Funny Valentine" reminded me how much I love the song, and despite already having multiple copies of the classic by different artists, I went in search of other versions. As a result, I discovered bassist John B. Williams's cut of "You'll See/My Funny Valentine" with the incomparable Nancy Wilson on vocals. You'll find the track

So cute and funny! Jimmy Fallon in drag with the FLOTUS in "The Evolution Of Mom Dancing." A friend shared it on Facebook, and I needed this healthy laugh.

Amber Holcomb - Vegas Singoff - American Idol 12 by IdolxMuzic I would buy Amber Holcomb's rendition of "My Funny Valentine" right this minute if it were for sale. The young Texan performed the jazz classic on tonight's sudden death round of American Idol, proving that she deserves to be on the show and in the music business. I enjoyed Kree Harrison and singer/songwriter Angela Miller as well.

Some students in a physics class in Chelyabinsk, Russia, thought war had broken out when this week's blasts from a meteor broke windows at their school. If such a cosmic event had happened here in the American South, I think our Fundamentalist Christians would have thought not war but the end of the world. Read more at CNN where a "witness says flash shone 'like 10 suns,' felt shock wave pass

This is Snow Ball, a 1.5 year old Samoyed. I saw him for adoption at the St. Tammany Humane Society Shelter in Covington, LA, on February 15, 2013, when I took my Lab in for a check-up.

Endymion's Pontchartrain Beach float is soooo long that it couldn't make a corner turn. The Krewe of Endymion debuted its massive Pontchartrain Beach float at its 2013 parade, three days before Mardi Gras. The float has multiple cars, is 375 feet long, and holds at least 230 riders, and it pays tribute to a local amusement park that closed in 1983. The cars represent different attractions and

This video was filmed yesterday in the New Orleans French Quarter. We were caught in small second line parade and 49ers fans assumed I was a Ravens fan, but it was an all good Super Bowl 47 weekend experience.Unfortunately I have to drive back down there tonight around 10:30 when the party will be insane. I anticipates official and unofficial roadblocks. I got a taste of that earlier today when

I could not get the idea out of my head that one of Tyler Perry's lines in Alex Cross was a tip of the hat to Oprah Winfrey's portrayal of Sofia in The Color Purple. When Tyler Perry says, "I will meet him at the gates of hell before I let him take another person from me that I love," does the line ring any bells?

I did not plan to be in the French Quarter on Super Bowl weekend, but I'm glad that I was forced down there.