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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Friday, December 21, 2018
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Transgender man has kept
full story from his parents
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: I’m a transgen-
bigger person,” not give up and “just
der male who has grown up in an
keep trying.” I married recently and
invited her to the wedding. She tex-
area where many people discourage
ted 48 hours beforehand to indicate
such things. They view what I am
she would not be there. I’m won-
as a sin and me as a sinful, satanic
dering, is it OK to stop trying now?
child. My parents are against any-
thing different, including the LGBT
I mean, how much of this should
community.
one person be forced to take? —
J eanne
Just About Done Trying
I have already gone through top
P hilliPs
Dear Just About Done: I see
surgery, but they don’t know about
ADVICE
nothing to be gained by continu-
it. What they do know is that I am
ing to tolerate your mother’s pas-
bisexual. How do I tell them that I
sive aggression. If you are asking
am male? — Sinful Child
for my permission to stop doing all the work
Dear “Sinful” Child: Why do you want
in the relationship, I am pleased to give it to
to make an announcement? You know what
you now.
will happen the minute you do. If you feel
Dear Abby: I have socialized with a
you must say something, say that you have
group of women for the past 20 years. Our
discovered your true self, which is male, and
connection has always been our children.
that you are happier now than you have ever
Now the children are grown and gone, one
been.
woman in our group keeps trying to include
After you do that you will be free. You
spouses each time we get together.
can then start building a family comprised
My husband works long hours. He
of people who are understanding and accept-
ing, which will be healthier for you than the
doesn’t enjoy being with these men, and he
one you were born into.
doesn’t want to go on these outings. I have
Dear Abby: My mother and I have been
sympathized with him because I don’t like
estranged for many years for multiple rea-
the changes either. I’d prefer these events
sons. She has bad-mouthed me in emails to
stay girlfriends-only. I have gone solo a
other relatives and then denied having done
few times and stayed away a few times. But
it, invited my ex-husband to family birth-
my friends are commenting now, and I feel
day parties knowing I wouldn’t show up if
stuck and uncomfortable. Do you have any
suggestions? — No Fan in Minnesota
he was there, and gone months, sometimes
Dear No Fan: Yes, be honest. Level with
years, without speaking to me over things
your women friends and say you prefer
she has perceived as slights.
socializing with them without the husbands.
I have tried many times to walk away
You are entitled to your feelings, and you do
and let the situation go, but I continue being
not have to elaborate further.
urged by other family members to “be the
DAYS GONE BY
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 21, 1918
The past 24 hours has shown the great-
est number of influenza cases yet reported
since Pendleton started enforcing the quar-
antine, and the total number of homes under
quarantine in the city has jumped to 65. The
new cases number 20, while but three have
been released from quarantine in the same
time. Fortunately with the large increase in
the disease it seems no severe cases have
developed, as Quarantine Officer Breach
reports all seem to be mild, and by care it
is hoped there will be no deaths resulting.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 21, 1968
Two robbers, one of them armed and
possibly both, held up Ron Perry, assis-
tant manager at Albertson’s Grocery at
8:20 p.m. last night, forced him to open the
safe and the cash registers, locked him in
the produce cooler, and escaped with about
$3,000 in cash. Perry said he locked up for
the night, glanced at his watch and noted it
was 8:20, and was accosted by a masked
man outside the store before he had gone
10 feet. The man, wearing a grotesque
Hallowe’en mask over his face, pointed a
nickel plated or chrome revolver at him,
and forced him to reopen the store. Inside,
another man who had apparently hidden in
the store before it was closed for the night
joined the robber, but kept in the back-
ground, and shielded his face. The money
was placed in an egg carton and then the
man forced Perry to go into the locker.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Dec. 21, 1993
The Morrow County School District
voted to consolidate junior high and high
school students in Heppner but won’t be
returning a high school to Irrigon. When
the district announced plans to put a bond
issue before the voters in March to pay for
enlarging schools in Boardman and Irri-
gon and improving aging buildings in the
south end, Irrigon residents pushed for the
return of their high school. Since the Irri-
gon High School closed more than 20 years
ago, junior high students in the two towns
have attended in Irrigon and high school
students have attended in Boardman. The
school board voted on Monday to con-
tinue that arrangement, but it was a diffi-
cult decision.
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 355th day of
2018. There are 10 days left
in the year. Winter arrives at
5:23 p.m. Eastern time.
On this date:
In
1620,
Pilgrims
aboard the Mayflower went
ashore for the first time
at present-day Plymouth,
Massachusetts.
In 1913, the first newspa-
per crossword puzzle, billed
as a “Word-Cross Puzzle,”
was published in the New
York World.
In 1937, Walt Dis-
ney’s first animated feature,
“Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs,” had its world pre-
miere at the Carthay Circle
Theater in Los Angeles. The
first Dr. Seuss book, “And to
Think That I Saw It on Mul-
berry Street,” was published
by Vanguard Press.
In 1945, U.S. Army Gen.
George S. Patton, 60, died
in Heidelberg, Germany, 12
days after being seriously
injured in a car accident.
In 1968, Apollo 8 was
launched on a mission to
orbit the moon.
In 1969, Vince Lombardi
coached his last football
game as his team, the Wash-
ington Redskins, lost to the
Dallas Cowboys, 20-10.
In 1988, 270 people were
killed when a terrorist bomb
exploded aboard a Pam Am
Boeing 747 over Lockerbie,
Scotland, sending wreckage
crashing to the ground.
In 2002, President George
W. Bush received a small-
pox vaccination, fulfilling
a promise he’d made when
he ordered inoculations for
about a half-million U.S.
troops.
Today’s Birthdays: Talk
show host Phil Donahue is
83. Actress Jane Fonda is
81. Actor Josh Mostel is 72.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson is
70. Rock singer Nick Gilder
is 68. Movie producer Jeffrey
Katzenberg is 68. Actor-co-
median Ray Romano is 61.
Treasury Secretary Ste-
ven Mnuchin is 56. Country
singer Christy Forester (The
Forester Sisters) is 56. Rock
musician Murph (The Lem-
onheads; Dinosaur Jr.) is 54.
Actor-comedian Andy Dick
is 53. Rock musician Gabri-
elle Glaser is 53. Actress
Michelle Hurd is 52. Coun-
try singer-musician Rhean
(rehn) Boyer (Carolina Rain)
is 48. Contemporary Chris-
tian singer Natalie Grant is
47. Actor Glenn Fitzgerald
is 47. Singer-musician Brett
Scallions is 47. Country
singer Luke Stricklin is 36.
Thought for Today:
“Winter comes but once a
year, And when it comes it
brings the doctor good cheer.”
— Ogden Nash, American
humorist (1902-1971).
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE