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About 10,000 years ago all cats were wild.
Then one of them crept into a Near East village that was raising wheat and barley.
Those grains attract rodents, which are even less useful than cats.
The cat began eating mice and rats, thereby protecting the grain, and the people began domesticating the cat.
Such is the contention of Carlos A. Driscoll of the National Cancer Institute who spent six years tracking down down where domestic cats came from, a New York Times story says.
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Well, they took down the Far East cafe sign on 18th Street yesterday.
I like old-style signs that had eternal pizazz.
But cities pass sign ordinances so that all the old, big great ones get trashed. A couple get a reprieve, such as Guthrie's Alley Cat.
One of the signs that was executed by the sign law was Let's Eat, the huge Rancho Bakersfield sign posted by Highway 99 and Airport Drive that had a flashing arrow pointing to the restaurant.
It was so garish that it was wonderful....
Not all men are as lucky as I am.
My wife doesn't have to fake it. Ever!
Oh, goodness. I'm not talking about the bedroom. I'm talking about my jokes.
There's a story in today's Eye Street by Heather Ijames about what she calls the transformation from the "girlfriend giggle" — where you laugh at the guy 's jokes not necessarily because they are funny, but you think he's hot and you know he likes you to laugh at his jokes — to the "obligatory laugh" in...
An Allstate Insurance Company report of 200 cities in the country found that Bakersfield is the second safest city in California and 58th in the nation.
Only Salinas has a better safety record in California.
The average driver is likely to experience a crash every 10 years, but in Bakersfield it is every 10.3 years (Salinas, 10.7 years).
The best place in the country is Sioux Falls, S.D. which averages 13.7 years between crashes for its residences.
I've been driving 42...
Maybe I shouldn't feel this way, but admitting that I like birds seems a little sissy to me.
But I do, so there it is.
A news story says the populations of many of our "backyard birds" has declined by more than half in the last 40 years.
The Associated Press story says:
The populations of nearly two dozen common American birds _ the fence-sitting meadowlark, the frenetic Rufous hummingbird and the whippoorwill with its haunting call _ are half what they were 40 years...
We, in anticipation of Father's Day on June 17, would like to know what your dad has done for you.
We don't want to know whether you love your dad (you can make a passing reference if you want), but we want to know a memory of your dad that's special to you.
I'll go first.
I was about 10 years old in Dallas, Texas. I was fishing in a creek next to some bigger boys. I hooked the biggest catfish of my life, probably about 2 and 1/2 pounds.
I fought is so hard that the pole...
In today's paper, sports writer Bob Varmette, an avid golfer, wrote a story about things that have really happened on a golf course.
Quirky things like a golfer hitting 14 balls into the water before he ran out of golf balls.
Or Larry Cook, Bakersfield College golf coach, who got a birdie and a par on the same hole — killed a bird in mid-flight on his drive and then 2-putted for a par.
Well, I have a few which I'll share and then you can add any of your own.
A few years...
I've been in Bakersfield 29 years.
If asked what is my favorite business in town, it is clearly Bob's Bait Bucket on Chester Avenue.
Every single time I've gone in there, it's been five to 10 minutes of fun joking with the people behind the counter.
On Sunday, it was Pete Cormeir who has a long beard, white like mine, and Joann Pierce, who has short silver hair and a pleasant smile.
Chit chatting about what makes beards white while Pete displayed some juicy night crawlers on a...
Do not tell my stepdaughter. She buys those things.
Lucky Brand Jeans is expected to open at Valley Plaza in September.
They sell high-end jeans. That doesn't mean above belly button waists like old men wear.
It means pricey.
The store spokeswoman said prices range from $70 to $130 with most around $100.
Well, my experience with the store at Fashion Island near Newport Beach has prices in the high 100s and low 200s. Their neighbors include Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale's.
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Apparently there is some trend to dish out smaller portions in restaurants.
This is to cater to Americans who are eating less and more healthy.
None of those people are my friends.
Actually, I find myself eating less. I had one of those make your own pasta dishes at Macaroni Grill last week and I could only eat half of it.
So I put the other half in a take-out container and had it later for lunch. This is the solution to big portions in restaurants.
It would be restaurant...
Right off the top, I want you to know I have too much respect for law enforcement to call this "The pig farmer and the pig."
But here we have the story of Louis Montgomery, a somewhat frail 81-year-old man (he would be the old guy in this story), and Kern County Sheriff's Deputy Steven Williams, a stocky, crew cut officer who could get lost in a Marine huddle.
Montgomery, who raises pigs, bopped Williams with a paint roller on March 4 and thus has been charged with...
First of all, I am personally ashamed and embarrassed that it would seem I'm poking fun at two Wal-mart supercenters in Bakersfield just because they are part of a huge corporate giant.
But moving along, the Bakersfield Planning Commission will accept public comment Thursday evening (6/7) on two environmental impact reports for the proposed centers on Panama Lane near Highway 99 and Gosford Road near Pacheco Road.
These aren't just Wal-marts. They are supercenters.
I've been...
We'll be running a story about how all on their own, tweens (ages 8 to 12) figured out that celebrities such as Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton aren't really good role models.
"I think it's messing up their careers," 13-year-old Chelsie Lopez of Stonecreek Junior High School says of the bad-girl threesome.
Cassi Ferreira, 12, a seventh grader at Rosedale Middle school assessed, "I think they're a bad influence for younger dids who don't know better."
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