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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, December 26, 2017 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Couple’s oft-chilly marriage is subzero following election FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I’m at a loss as to in your political beliefs has affected how to stay in my 21-year marriage. the way she feels about you. In August, when our twin daughters The next should start with asking leave for college, my wife and I will her whether she was ever satisfied become empty nesters. We haven’t in the bedroom with you. If you can had sex in more than 2 1/2 years, and get her to talk about it, you may be before that it didn’t happen more than able to find out where the two of you a couple of times a year. went off track and fix it. However, if My wife says she “doesn’t feel you can’t, then your counselor was Jeanne a connection with me anymore” (or Phillips correct. perhaps never really did). We have Dear Abby: I’ve been single for Advice seen a counselor a couple of times more than a year and playing the over the last 12 years, but the most he field, having casual relationships, but has to offer now is that I will have to decide never anything I was too invested in. That whether or not to accept this as my new changed recently when I met someone I’ll normal. We don’t fight, but we live like room- call “Eve.” We have hit it off spectacularly mates, although we continue to share a bed. and are very much into each other. We are on opposite sides of the political The only issue is she has a kid. I’m only spectrum, and I suspect that may have some- 23, and I’m not in a position to be any kind thing to do with her sense of disconnect. The of father figure. That being said, I would still little affection progress we were making died love to be with Eve and occasionally help the night of the presidential election. She out with her little one, but I don’t know how seems content to continue like this. I hate to open up and tell her directly that I’m not the notion of divorce, both for what it would prepared for the pressures of being a “dad” to mean spiritually and for what it would do to a newborn. How do I express this to her? — our families and friends. Can you help? — Is No White Knight In Knoxville This My New Normal? Dear No White Knight: “Daddyhood” Dear “Is”: Couples on opposite sides of isn’t a skill that every man is born with. Some the political spectrum can still have successful men are naturals at it; others learn gradually marriages IF they respect their mates and can through experience. Tell Eve that you care discuss their differences intelligently and about her, but that at 23 you are not in a posi- calmly. However, you state that your sex life tion to be a dad to her baby. In time, things has been the way it is for 21 years — which may change — GRADUALLY — but not makes me wonder whether the chemistry right now. It may or may not cause the end of was strong to begin with. the relationship. Her first responsibility must I do think you and your wife are overdue be to her child, and a romance right out of the for a series of honest conversations, and the delivery room is too soon, “white knight” or first should start with whether the difference no white knight. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 25-26, 1917 Blame it on the city council as usual. This time it is the scarcity of Christmas trees and the high price of the few that were sold by local dealers yesterday. At least this is the alibi of some of the merchants who made an effort to fill a big demand yesterday for the Yuletide decoration, but who had little success. Their explanation is that in previous years the council either decorated the streets with evergreens or staged a municipal Christmas tree. This venture enabled the dealers to get their supply at the same time and in quantity. But this year the city fathers did not undertake any decorating scheme. As a result only two or three big loads of trees were sold yesterday. The prices ranged from fifty cents for a small top to two dollars for a sizable fir. The few trees that were sold came from Meacham or Cayuse. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 25-26, 1967 Weather statistics sometimes seem para- doxical, but despite the fact that the Umatilla River is running high and some are worrying about floods, precipitation has been so scant in Pendleton that the city needs .24 of an inch before New Year’s Day to come within an inch of the driest year here since 1890. The driest year had a total precipitation of 7.99 and so far this month a .43 total has brought the 1967 figure to only 6.75 inches. If Pendleton could borrow some of Spout Springs’ precipitation of the last few days it would be different. During the five days ending at 8 a.m. today a total of 5.60 inches of precipitation has been registered there, 4.27 of it coming as rain the last two days. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Dec. 25-26, 1992 Stacee Raber, formerly of Pendleton, is spending the holiday season in Europe with a professional touring company of “Oklahoma.” According to Stacee’s mother, the musical troupe performs to full houses wherever they appear. She sings and dances in the ensemble and serves as understudy for the character Ado Annie. She’s the youngest cast member. Stacy is the daughter of Dave and Sally Raber of Pendleton. She graduated from Pendleton High School in 1988 and earned her bachelor’s degree in dance this year from Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 360th day of 2017. There are five days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 26, 1947, heavy snow blanketed the North- east, burying New York City under 26.4 inches of snow in 16 hours; the severe weather was blamed for some 80 deaths. On this date: In 1776, British forces suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the Revolutionary War. In 1799, former President George Washington was eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” In 1865, James H. Nason of Franklin, Massachusetts, received a patent for “an improved coffee percolator.” In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Afri- can-American boxer to win the world heavyweight championship as he defeated Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia. In 1917, during World War I, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation authorizing the government to take over operation of the nation’s railroads. In 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, the embattled U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium, was relieved by units of the 4th Armored Division. Tennessee Williams’ play “The Glass Menagerie” was first performed at the Civic Theatre in Chicago. In 1967, “Magical Mystery Tour,” the Beatles’ poorly received TV special, was broadcast (in black and white) on BBC1. In 1972, the 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, Missouri, at age 88. In 1996, 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Donald Moffat is 87. Actor Caroll Spinney (Big Bird on TV’s “Sesame Street”) is 84. Rhythm-and-blues singer Abdul “Duke” Fakir (The Four Tops) is 82. Record producer (and convicted murderer) Phil Spector is 78. “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh is 72. Country musician Bob Carpenter (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 71. Humorist David Sedaris is 61. Rock musician James Kottak (The Scorpions) is 55. Rock musician Lars Ulrich (Metallica) is 54. Rock singer James Mercer (The Shins; Flake) is 47. Actor-singer Jared Leto is 46. Thought for Today: “Christmas has come and gone, and I — to speak selfishly — am glad of it. The season always gives me the blues in spite of myself, though I manage to get a good deal of pleasure from thinking of the multitudes of happy kids in various parts of the world.” — Edwin Arlington Robinson, Amer- ican poet (1869-1935). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE