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Okay, to the tune of "It's my party..." can we sing, "It's my fireplace and I can burn wood if I want to, I can burn wood if I want to."
But the answer is that beginning Wednesday (Nov. 1), the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District will tell you what days you can burn wood, or not, until February.
This is because we have bad air, some days worse than others, and the district in 2003 started a program of banning wood fires on really bad air days.
When...
It works for rats. Can men be far behind?
A birth control pill is being developed for men.
Studies show it has no side effects and doesn't reduce a man's virility. (That's good because that would be a deal breaker.)
Availability is still a few years away,
But the question is — would men take it? And would women trust men to take it? Or is abstinence still your favorite form of birth control?
Posted by Steve E. Swenson
Several of us in the office just had this disucssion.
The correct answer is no.
But some thought it would be "hot" to get flowers from a woman.
I'm okay with getting plants. I have one on my desk from my bride. Some years ago, my son's girlfriend gave me a $1 plant when I suffered a separated shoulder. I kept that plant alive for five years.
But flowers are for sissies. Which is why we give them to women.
I don't mean that in a bad way. Women are like delicate...
Women are wearing sexy Halloween costumes this year.
Kathryn Brinkley of Fantasy Frocks in Bakersfield said costumes by Playboy sold out in a week. The store's owner, Jennifer Keller, said Playboy doesn't have enough costumes for the demand.
Some are making Mother Goose sexy -- grown up effects for Little Red Riding Hood, Little Bo Peep and Miss Muffet have styles some would consider grim, but no fairy tale.
Keller in a story by Californian reporter Danielle Belton said,...
As a product of an all-boys high school, the thought of people willingly signing up for single-sex education — without being ordered by a Catholic mom — strikes me as counter-productive.
Whatever more I would learn in class would be counter-balanced by learning less about the other sex.
New federal rules will allow school districts to create single-sex schools and classes as long as enrollment is voluntary.
School districts that go that route also must make available...
So you send a co-worker an e-mail praising him, and he thinks you're mocking him.
What's with that?
According to a story written by Dana Knight of the Indianapolis Star, your e-mail has a 50 percent of being misinterpreted.
Who knew?
The story's example is a worker sends the employee of the month an e-mail that says, "Geez. You are so awesome. I'm proud."
But the employee of the month interprets the not as a jab, a sarcastic you-didn't-deserve-the-award message.
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Californian reporter Lisa Schencker wrote a story about students and parents complaining that eighth grade students were asked to wrote their own obituary.
Parent Natalie Chamblee didn't think her 13-year-old stepdaughter, Kristal, who spent nearly a month in the hospital with an esophagus condition in the 6th grade, should have to think about death.
The teacher, Jaima Churchwell, said the assignment has a long history in schools and it is more of a goal-setting assignment of what do...
Those veggie nuts are at it again.
A new study says eating vegetables appears to help keep the brain young and slow the mental decline associated with growing old.
I'll eat carrots and peas, but as a side dish to my steak. If I'm a little duller and mentally deficient for the beef, then so be it.
Green leafy vegetables including spinach are supposed to be especially good for you. Right, if you don't contract e-coli diseases first.
What does your brain tell you about eating more...
Some crimes make me shiver.
One of those is the Thursday morning killing of Jesse Harkleroad and the shooting of three of his friends.
What's so frightening about it is that they were complying with the demands of the gunmen to give them the keys to their car, and yet they still got shot.
I can picture myself in that situation. I tend to comply with people who have guns. They can have my money or car, but I'd like to get out with my life.
If the suspects who have been arrested are...
If this story doesn't touch a soft part in your heart, there is nothing about you that's worth living.
Jesse, a Labrador retriever and German shepherd mix, saved a disabled woman from a house fire in Wisconsin, only to lose his own life as he went back inside the house to try to save the cat that started the fire.
He not only saved the woman, but he retrieved her prosthetic leg first and got her cellphone so she could call 911.
Adults would have been hard pressed to react so well...
A Massachusetts school has banned tag and touch football during recess so kids don't get hurt.
The Boston Herald reported, "Tag is now banned from the playground of Willett Elementary School in Attleboro. Touch football, dodgeball and all other unsupervised chasing games have also been taken out of play."
The paper said, "The rule was championed by second-year principal Gaylene Heppe. She claims the rule is nothing new. It is part of a broader playground rule that has...
Xiamen University in China is requiring golf in its business major curriculum.
The theory is that in today's world, many deals are made on golf courses.
I'm now wondering why I wasted my time at San Jose State. (well, I was on the golf team there for a couple years, but it was elective).
So what do you think of this idea?
Is it the job of a school to require golf as a business tool? Or should that be an individual choice like, for example, learning how to launder money.
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Bakersfield College is proposing to restrict the areas where students can smoke.
Students will be allowed to vote on this.
Apparently, about 20 percent of adults in California smoke so the election might be stacked against them.
Students are currently banned from smoking inside buildings or within 20 feet of buildings.
I think this is just another attempt to crack down on the stupid people who smoke expensive cigarettes that can kill them.
What do you think?
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Kern County District Attorney Ed Jagels is beginning a new, weekly column called "Every Lie They Print."
They would be us, The Californian.
Ed believes we distort our court and crime coverage, implying misconduct by police and prosecutors.
Executive Editor Mike Jenner said Jagels is welcome to his opinion, but he's not welcome to characterize our reporting as lying.
The DA's column will be on the Kern County website under the District Attorney's department, and the new...
Someone in my family bought sunglasses over the weekend for a couple hundred bucks.
I won't front her out because my wife doesn't like it when I do that.
She didn't really need sunglasses because she bought some at a store near Mammoth for about $12. I thought they looked pretty.
But her new ones are Gianni Versace, and Versace doesn't sell sunglasses for $12. It has some for about $500.
I recently bought a nice pair at K-mart for $9.99. They look pretty good and they cut down on...
I'm a Democrat, Phil Angelides.
I can't vote for you because you're out of touch and an embarrassment to the party. You're in a wing that went stale years ago.
One of our bloggers at the primary election said that when Steve Westly lost, Arnold Schwarzenegger was assured victory.
And your latest whine — complaining to Jay Leno that he's not giving you equal time with Schwarzenegger has tipped me over the edge.
Leno is a comedy show. You have to be funny to get on his show....
I will confess right up front I don't know all that much about the city's proposed Hillside Ordinance.
All I really want it to say is you can build houses on those ugly hills as long as they don't burn up or fall down in a rainstorm.
But I'm not a council person. Jacquie Sullivan is. And it intrigued me to no end that she didn't have time to read about the law before Wednesday's well publicized meeting. She got the information Friday with her council packet.
She might be interested...
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