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One of our regular, but former, blog posters (she doesn't like the new format) sent an e-mail about her experience with Von's and a bottle ot tartar sauce she bought.
She realized at home it was eight months past the expiration date.
So her husband took it back and he found three more bottles on the shelf well past the expiration date. He gave them to the store manager and got a new one.
If that's all that happened, you wouldn't be reading about it.
The next day he goes back...
My bride and I saw Breach yesterday. Most of the audience seemed older and mature.
But as we left, we saw the usual popcorn, drinks and candy wrappers strewn throughout almost every row.
This absolutely amazes me that so many people can be such slobs in a public place.
There is a trash can right outside the door where they can dump their garbage.
Am I the only one bothered by this terrible display of trashiness?
Posted by Steve E. Swenson
Kudos to the Kern County Sheriff's Department for being the first to enforce the Cool Parent ordinance — the one that makes it a civil sanction for providing alcohol to underage children.
The administrative citations were issued to four Bakersfield residence in connection with a Dec. 22 party on La Cresta Drive in which six teenagers were stabbed.
It is absolutely amazing to me the adults who provide alcohol to kids — I know personally of insurance people and a family law...
The Grammys the Dixie Chicks won won't get them back on local radio stations, KUZZ or KBKO.
The reason for that is not so much the radio stations as it is the narrow-minded country music fans in this neck of the woods.
Because it is the fans who keep telling the radio stations they won't listen if the Dixie Chicks get air time.
True, Natalie Maines wasn't so smart to rag on President Bush at a a concert in England in 2003. But so what? Real Americans allow for divergent views....
A new steady says women become aroused at the smell of men's sweat.
Good to know.
And here all this time, I quickly took a shower after I played golf, alleging I needed to get rid of the stink before cuddling with my sweet heart.
Turns out, she could have become turned on by my sweat gland excretions (sounds sexy already) caused by 70-something strokes and 4 miles of walking.
Even so, I'm not trying this out.
I know I like the way she smells when she's clean. I think sweet...
My new bride and I chatted about Valentine's Day and we agreed we would buy each other a card.
Valentine's Day for under $3.
I'm sorry, I can't do that. Too many years of conditioning.
So I'm taking her out to a nice dinner. I might even get her flowers or a plant.
Just can't do Valentine's Day for under $3.
Can you?
Posted by Steve E. Swenson
McClatchy reporter Niki Sullivan wrote a story about job burnout — the feeling that you hate to go to work.
The feelings are exhaustion, withdrawal and lack of job satisfaction.
Does that sound like you? Maybe some of the time?
It almost never happens to me. For the last 36 years working as a reporter, I've had a wonderful job that makes each day a new adventure.
But the story suggests that if people feel job burnout, their lives may be out of balance.
And boy have I seen...
The way I did it in my era was right and the way it is being done by some tweens now is wrong.
Californian reporter Mark Barna wrote a story about how tweens, 8- to 13-year-old kids, are seeking designer clothes, dating, eating disorders and parties with beer or drugs.
Whoa! Hold on there, young'ins. Plenty of time for the legal parts of that later, and the illegal parts not at all.
My life is fully illustrative of how all this should happen. Except for the part where during...
I am one of the last people to hop on board to new technology trends, but I'm apparently in one now where I use my debit card instead of checks.
An Associated Press story says check writing has declined sharply since 1995, from 49.5 billion checks then to 36.6 billion in 2003.
Debit cards are a big reason for that trend, going from 8.3 billion transactions in 2000 to 15.6 billion in 2003.
My only problem with debit cards is restaurants, which invariably report incorrect transaction...
I'm thinking teen safety behind the wheel is a myth.
A New York Times story by Jane E. Brody suggests the number one cause of teenage crashes is inexperience.
The implication is that teenagers don't get enough experience before they get a license.
Let me use my daughter as an example. She was the one the DMV instructor almost didn't grant a license to because she was too cautious. She got over that.
She was 16 or 17 and had two girls in the car while they are north on D Street...
A local blogger, Bake Town, has published a list with pictures of Kern County Barbies.
They include Taft, Tehachapi, Oildale, Greenacres, Cottonwood, Seven Oaks and Rosedale Barbie dolls, complete with accessories.
Some of the descriptions are not too flattering.
The Taft Barbie begins, "This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handgun."
The Seven Oaks Barbie includes this description, "Also available for this set are Shallow Ken and Garces High School...
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