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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Wife loses lust for husband,
but wants to save marriage
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: My husband and I
Dear Abby: I’m not attracted to
my husband. I love him and don’t
moved to a new town last year and
want to live without him, but I do not
are working on settling in and making
want to be physically intimate with
friends. Our way has been to accept
him. I know it is unfair to him, and
every invitation offered in hopes of
I have tried everything from antide-
building relationships in this small
pressants to meditation to diet, but
community.
nothing works.
We recently had dinner at the
I used to have a high libido, but I
home of a neighbor couple who were
Jeanne
haven’t wanted to have sex with him Phillips very welcoming, but we quickly
in years. We do it maybe two or three
realized the four of us have abso-
Advice
times a month because I force myself
lutely nothing in common. Making
to, but it is unpleasant for me. He
conversation through the meal and
doesn’t want to guilt me into sex and hates coffee taxed all of our small-talk skills, and
that I force myself, but he has a very high there were many painful silences. Any foray
libido.
into current events, family life — even
We are in our mid-20s and I know this is gardening — revealed stark differences that
killing him — and us. I am attracted to some brought conversation to a screeching halt. We
(but very few) others — just not to him. I made an excuse to go home early and sent a
have always been more emotionally attracted thank-you note the next day.
to women than men, but I don’t think that is
Usually, I think a dinner invitation
it. I need help before our marriage starts to requires a reciprocal invitation in the future.
crumble. — Avoiding It In South Carolina In this case, I’m wondering if it would be
Dear Avoiding It: I can’t wave a magic better to just let it go. Would it be rude to not
wand and make you more physically attracted reciprocate, or must I suck it up? If we must
to your husband. I can suggest that the most have them over, how do I ensure the second
sensitive sexual organ in a woman’s body dinner goes better than the first? We hope to
resides between her ears.
live here for a long time. — Different In The
However, I am not qualified to diagnose West
whether your problem may be of a physical
Dear Different: Do the right thing and
nature. That’s why I’m advising you to ask invite the couple for dinner. It does not have
your doctor to perform a thorough physical to be in your home — a nice restaurant would
examination. If he or she finds nothing amiss, do. If the evening was as uncomfortable as
ask the doctor — or your health insurance you have described, they may not accept
company — to refer you to a licensed mental your invitation. But if they do, a way to make
health professional who can help you figure conversation flow more easily might be to
out what’s going on.
include another couple.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 12-13, 1918
Indians of the reservation will not be
encouraged to form separate military units for
service against the kaiser, according to infor-
mation received this morning from Cato Sells,
commissioner of Indian affairs. He thinks it
highly advisable that the Indians should take
their place, shoulder to shoulder with their
white comrades. “I want the Indian to go
into this conflict,” he says, “as the equal and
comrade of every man who assails autocracy
and ancient might, and to come home with a
new light in his face and a clearer conception
of the democracy in which he may participate
and prosper.”
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 12-13, 1968
Three cars were stolen and one was
recovered the last 24 hours, according to
city police. State police informed them a car
was stolen from Adams and that another was
missing from the longhouse at Mission last
night. They also said a car stolen sometime
Friday from Louis Jenkins was recovered
abandoned in a ditch on a market road east of
Pendleton. Raymond Martin Shade reported
to city police today his pickup was stolen
from in front of his house between 9:30 p.m.
and 6 this morning.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 12-13, 1993
When he started running 15 years ago it
was to get in shape for pick-up basketball
games. Alan Beck has been running ever
since, and racing since 1979. Last week Beck,
46, won a national title when he finished first
in the 45-49 age group at the USA Track
and Field (formerly The Athletic Congress)
cross country championships in Sandy. He
finished in 17 minutes, 17 seconds over the
5-kilometer (3.1 mile) course. Beck, who is
on the board of the Oregon Association of
USA Track and Field, was running on an
Oregon team, which finished second. “I was
really happy. I hadn’t been racing for a while
because of the weather,” Beck said.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
Today is the 44th day of
2018. There are 321 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 13, 1633,
Italian astronomer Galileo
Galilei arrived in Rome for
trial before the Inquisition,
accused
of
defending
Copernican theory that the
Earth revolved around the
sun instead of the other way
around. (Galileo was found
vehemently suspect of heresy,
and ended up being sentenced
to a form of house arrest.)
On this date:
In 1542, the fifth wife of
England’s King Henry VIII,
Catherine Howard, was
executed for adultery.
In 1741, Andrew Bradford
of Pennsylvania published
the first American magazine.
“The American Magazine,
or A Monthly View of the
Political State of the British
Colonies” lasted three issues.
In 1861, Abraham Lincoln
was
officially
declared
winner of the 1860 presiden-
tial election as electors cast
their ballots.
In 1914, the American
Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers,
also known as ASCAP, was
founded in New York.
In 1933, the Warsaw
Convention,
governing
airlines’ liability for interna-
tional carriage of persons,
luggage and goods, went into
effect.
In 1935, a jury in Flem-
ington, New Jersey, found
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
guilty of first-degree murder
in the kidnap-slaying of
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the
20-month-old son of Charles
and Anne Lindbergh. (Haupt-
mann was later executed.)
In 1943, during World
War II, the U.S. Marine
Corps Women’s Reserve was
officially established.
In 1968, actress Mae
Marsh, known mostly for her
silent film work (“The Birth
of a Nation”; “Intolerance”),
died in Hermosa Beach,
California, at age 73.
In 1974, Nobel Prize-win-
ning
Russian
author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was
expelled from the Soviet
Union.
In 1998, Dr. David
Satcher was sworn in as the
16th Surgeon General of the
United States during an Oval
Office ceremony.
Today’s Birthdays: U.S.
Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles
E. “Chuck” Yeager (ret.)
is 95. Actress Kim Novak
is 85. Actor George Segal
is 84. Actor Bo Svenson is
77. Actress Carol Lynley is
76. Singer-musician Peter
Tork (The Monkees) is 76.
Actress Stockard Channing
is 74. Talk show host Jerry
Springer is 74. Sen. Richard
Blumenthal, D-Conn., is 72.
Singer Peter Gabriel is 68.
Actor David Naughton is 67.
Rock musician Peter Hook
is 62. Singer Henry Rollins
is 57. Rock singer Matt
Berninger (The National)
is 47. Rock musician Todd
Harrell (3 Doors Down) is
46. Singer-songwriter Feist
is 42. Actress Mena Suvari
(is 39. Rock musician Dash
Hutton (Haim) is 33. Michael
Joseph Jackson Jr. (also
known as Prince Michael
Jackson I) is 21.
Thought for Today: “To
go against the dominant
thinking of your friends, of
most of the people you see
every day, is perhaps the
most difficult act of heroism
you can have.” — Theodore
H. White, American political
writer (1915-1986).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE