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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Mother fears past abuser
has now targeted her son
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I have a son from a
you will be judged as well. It seems
previous relationship, and have been
to me that all substances excreted by
in a relationship with a man I’ll call
the body should be off limits in social
Bryan for a year. Not long ago, Bryan
situations. — My Business In Texas
confided to me that he and his brother
Dear My Business: Judgmental
had been molested by a female rela-
people can get to you only if you
tive. I don’t know her. I have only met
allow it. While there are valid reasons
his parents.
why babies should be breastfed, it
This female relative has been
isn’t always possible, and women
Jeanne
asking about my son on social media Phillips should not be quizzed by strangers
because she has seen him in pictures
about whether they are.
Advice
with Bryan’s family. I want to tell her
My mother used to advise readers
to back off, but so far, I have held
who were put off by prying ques-
off. I’m afraid if I do, I will cause problems tions to say, “If you will forgive me for not
because his parents don’t know what I know. answering that question, I’ll forgive you for
My protective instinct has become very asking.” Even though you asked for a polite
alert. I may be wrong, but I feel like she sees retort, in a situation like this, MY response
my son as a future target. What should I do? would be, “If that were any of your business,
— Mama Bear
you would already know the answer!”
Dear Mama Bear: Listen to your protec-
Dear Abby: A couple years ago, when we
tive instinct. Talk with Bryan and tell him the moved to a home with more privacy than our
woman’s questions are of concern to you, that previous home, my husband decided to walk
you don’t want her to have any information around naked all the time. It’s not that I’m a
about or contact with your child, and then prude, but I don’t find his furry 60-year-old
make sure your wishes are respected. If she body attractive in broad daylight. Quite the
receives any message to back off, it should opposite, in fact.
come from him, not you.
I have asked him many times to please put
Dear Abby: On behalf of all new moms, something on, and he either ignores me or gets
please help with this question. Why does mad. I avert my eyes when he’s sashaying by
every woman in the world, it seems, feel me. Is there anything else I can do to reason
entitled to ask new moms if they are breast- with him? — Seen Enough Already
feeding their babies? How should new moms
Dear Seen Enough: Probably not. Since
respond politely to this question? If you say you can’t change him, why not join him
yes, you may or may not be lying. If you say one day a week? You have nothing to lose
no, you will be judged. If you give an evasive but your clothes — and it might solve the
answer, people will assume you are not and problem.
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 21, 1918
The heatless night for the office building is
the latest thing in war economy. Notification
was received this morning by owners of Pend-
leton office buildings that, beginning tonight,
no fuel can be used to heat the buildings
between the hours of 5:30 p.m. and 7 a.m.
The word, which was in the form of an edict,
came from Fred J. Holmes, fuel administrator
for Oregon, and is effective all over the state.
This order applies regardless of the kind of
fuel used or how heat is manufactured.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 21, 1968
Cecil Zerba, co-captain of the Blue Moun-
tain Community College wrestling team,
concluded the winter dual season without a
defeat. Zerba, Milton-Freewater, wrestles
in the 137-pound class and is a sophomore
working toward a business administration
major. He was the Oregon Community
College Athletic Association champion last
year and participated in the NJCAA tourna-
ment, and is well on the way to a successful
defense of his laurels this season.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Feb. 21, 1993
Russ Aiken is 16 but looks years younger
— far too young to be telling you he is dying
from AIDS. Russell, a Hermiston resident
most of his life, believes he caught the AIDS
virus sometime in late 1986 from infusions
for the treatment of hemophilia. Since then,
he has learned all he can about the disease. He
tested positive in January 1987. “Ryan White
was the first to come out about it,” he said.
“He was a fighter. I want to pick up where he
left off.”
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
BLONDIE
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
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 52nd day of
2018. There are 313 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On Feb. 21, 1965, black
Muslim leader and civil
rights activist Malcolm X,
39, was shot to death inside
Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom
in New York by assassins
identified as members of the
Nation of Islam. (Three men
were convicted of murder
and imprisoned; all were
eventually paroled.)
On this date:
In 1437, James I, King of
Scots, 42, was assassinated in
Perth by a group of conspir-
ators led by Walter, Earl of
Atholl; his 6-year-old son
succeeded him as James II.
In 1513, Pope Julius II,
who commissioned Michel-
angelo to paint the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel, died
nearly four months after the
project was completed.
In
1613,
Mikhail
Romanov, 16, was unani-
mously chosen by Russia’s
national assembly to be czar,
beginning a dynasty that
would last three centuries.
In 1885, the Washington
Monument was dedicated.
In 1916, the World War
I Battle of Verdun began in
France as German forces
attacked; the French were
able to prevail after 10
months of fighting.
In 1945, during the World
War II Battle of Iwo Jima, the
escort carrier USS Bismarck
Sea was sunk by kamikazes
with the loss of 318 men.
In 1947, inventor Edwin
H. Land publicly demon-
strated his Polaroid Land
camera, which used self-de-
veloping film to produce a
black & white photograph in
60 seconds.
In 1958, the USS
Gudgeon (SS-567) became
the first American submarine
to complete a round-the-
world cruise, eight months
after departing from Pearl
Harbor in Hawaii.
In
1972,
President
Richard M. Nixon began his
historic visit to China as he
and his wife, Pat, arrived in
Beijing.
In 1975, former Attorney
General John N. Mitchell and
former White House aides
H.R. Haldeman and John D.
Ehrlichman were sentenced
to 2 1/2 to 8 years in prison
for their roles in the Water-
gate cover-up (each ended up
serving a year and a-half).
In 1986, Larry Wu-tai
Chin, the first American
found guilty of spying for
China, killed himself in his
Virginia jail cell.
In 1992, Kristi Yama-
guchi of the United States
won the gold medal in ladies’
figure skating at the Albert-
ville Olympics; Midori Ito of
Japan won the silver, Nancy
Kerrigan of the U.S., the
bronze.
Today’s
Birthdays:
Former Zimbabwe President
Robert Mugabe is 94. Fashion
designer Hubert de Givenchy
is 91. U.S. Rep. John Lewis,
D-Ga., is 78. Film/music
company executive David
Geffen is 75. Tricia Nixon
Cox is 72. Former Sen.
Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine,
is 71. Actor Kelsey Grammer
is 63. Country singer Mary
Chapin Carpenter is 60. Rock
musician Michael Ward
is 51. Country singer Eric
Heatherly is 48. Musician
Eric Wilson is 48. Actor
Tituss Burgess is 39. Actress
Jennifer Love Hewitt is 39.
Comedian-actor Jordan Peele
is 39. Actor Brendan Sexton
III is 38. Singer Charlotte
Church is 32. Actress Ashley
Greene is 31. Actress Ellen
Page is 31. Actor Corbin
Bleu is 29. Actress Hayley
Orrantia is 24. Actress
Sophie Turner is 22.
Thought for Today: “In
scandal, as in robbery, the
receiver is always as bad as
the thief.” — Lord Chester-
field, English author and
statesman (1694-1773).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE