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Peanuts

Charles Schulz

GoComics

July 28, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2024/07/28

For Better or For Worse

Lynn Johnston

GoComics

December 04, 2016

http://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/2016/12/04

Shutterbug Follies

Jason Little

GoComics

April 28, 2016

http://www.gocomics.com/shutterbug-follies/2016/04/28

For Better or For Worse

by Lynn Johnston

GoComics

September 21, 2014

Oyster War

by Ben Towle

GoComics

January 16, 2014

For Better or For Worse

by Lynn Johnston

GoComics

December 25, 2013

http://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse#.UrqUPfTuKAk

Dick Tracy

by Joe Staton and Mike Curtis

GoComics

May 20, 2012

For Better or For Worse

by Lynn Johnston

GoComics

October 09, 2011

For Better or For Worse

By Lynn Johnston

Washington Post

September 18, 2011

For Better or For Worse

By Lynn Johnston

Washington Post

Auguist 7, 2011

Nate Beeler

The Washington Examiner

Washington, D.C.

Cagle

21 April 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama

The Guardian Weekend Food p. 86 15 April 2006

The Guardian Sport p. 10 20 May 2006

The Guardian p. 19 16 September 2006

Ed Stein

The Rocky Mountain News, Colorado

Cagle

23 March 2009

George W. Bush - 43rd President of the United States.

He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001,

re-elected on November 2, 2004,

and sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2005.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewbush

Vic Harville

Little Rock, Arkansas -- Stephens Media Group

Cagle

19 March 2009

George W. Bush

43rd President of the United States.

He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001,

re-elected on November 2, 2004,

and sworn in for a second term

on January 20, 2005.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewbush

John Cole

The Times

Scranton, PA

Cagle

26 October 2010

John Cole

The Scranton Times

Scranton, PA

Cagle

23 January 2009

Martin Rowson

The Guardian

p.14

28 June 2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1248658,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/archive/martinrowson/0,7371,337763,00.html

L to R: Tony Blair, Jack Straw (?)

Cal Grondahl

Utah Standard Examiner

Cagle

17 December 2008

Steve Sack

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune*

Minnesota

Cagle

16 December 2008

Dave Brown

The Independent

12.12.2005

David Cameron, new leader of the Tories

Jerry Holbert

The Boston Herald

Boston, MA

Cagle

11.11.2005

http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/holbert.asp

4 November 2005

Chris Britt

The State Journal-Register

Springfield, IL

Cagle

12 August 2005

http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/britt.asp

Rex Morgan Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan

Created in 1948 by Nicholas P. Dallis 5 April 2005

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/rmorgan/about.htm

Spiderman Stan Lee 27 October 2004

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/spidermn/about.htm

Popeye Hy Eisman 29 June 2004

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/popeye/about.htm

Chris Britt

The State Journal Register

Springfield, Il

Cagle

12.7.2004

https://www.copleynews.com/1cns/EditorialCartoons/bt/

L: John Kerry.

Martin Rowson

The Guardian p.16

21 June 2004

https://www.theguardian.com/cartoons/archive/martinrowson/0,7371,337763,00.html

L: George W. Bush,

43rd president of the United States.

R: British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

22 May 2004

The Guardian p. 6 26 June 2004

The Guardian p. 4 29 January 2005

Larry Wright

The Detroit News

Cagle

15 June 2004

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/

Peanuts Begins

Charles Schulz

GoComics

August 05, 2022

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts-begins/2022/08/05

Dick Wright

The Columbus Dispatch OH

Cagle

15 June 2004

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/

John Kerry.

Jack Ohman

The Portland Oregonian

Portland OR

Cagle

29 June 2004

http://www.comicspage.com/ohman/

Daryl Cagle

13 February 2004

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/

L: George W. Bush

R: Uncle Sam

Flash Gordon Jim Keefe 27 June 2004

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/fgordon/about.htm

Whaam!

Roy Lichtenstein........Magna on canvas.......

2 panels; 68 x 166 inches overall; 172.7 x 421.6 cm overall .. ..1963

Tate Gallery, London London, England

www.tate.org.uk

http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/frames.htm

Alex Taylor The Daily Telegraph 14 July 2004

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml;sessionid=ELPW3VP5UOARJQFIQMFCM54AVCBQYJVC?
view=HOME&grid=P13&menuId=-1&menuItemId=-1&_requestid=32827

Rex Morgan Woody Wilson and Graham Nolan

Created in 1948 by Nicholas P. Dallis 2 July 2004

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/rmorgan/about.htm

Popeye Hy Eisman 2 July 2004

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/popeye/about.htm

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Language > Sounds, Onomatopoeia

Clinton and Sanders

Show Their Exhaustion

April 15, 2016

12:17 am

The New York Times

By Elizabeth Williamson

Whew.

The final Democratic debate

before the New York primary

was an exhausting battle waged by exhausted

candidates, a window into how brutally tiring a

presidential campaign is at this stage.

Clinton and Sanders Show Their Exhaustion,
NYT, April 15, 2016,
https://archive.nytimes.com/
takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/
clinton-and-sanders-show-their-exhaustion/

Whoops there goes another million …

the big losers of 2012

Tuesday 25 December 2012
22.25 GMT
The Guardian
Simon Goodley

Simon Goodley presents

a selection of the business people who lost

even as stock markets showed

they can actually go up

Whoops there goes another million … the big losers of 2012,
G,
25.12.2012,
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/dec/25/
stock-market-losers-2012

Whoaaa!

Stop Signs Try Humor in Illinois

September 29, 2007

Filed at 12:31 p.m. ET

The New York Times

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) -- A big red sign that says ''Stop'' sometimes isn't enough to get everyone to stop. Maybe a laugh will get their attention.

This Chicago suburb has installed second stop signs beneath the regular ones at 50 intersections with messages, including ''WHOAAA'' or ''Stop ... and smell the roses.''

''I thought it might make people smile and take notice,'' Mayor Dave Heilmann said as he launched the campaign Friday. ''You've got people on their cell phones, their BlackBerries and iPods while driving. Those are all distractions. Hopefully, when they see a sign they're not expecting it might make them stop.''

The new signs are red octagons, just like the real stop signs, but instead of just ''Stop'' they say ''Stop ... right there pilgrim'' and ''Stop ... in the naame of love.'' Naame? Think of the drawn-out pronunciation in the hit by the Supremes.

It might be too soon to know whether the alternative signs will work. But while the mayor was posing for a photo with one of the new signs, a driver sped by without stopping.

Whoaaa! Stop Signs Try Humor in Illinois,
NYT, 29.9.2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/
AP-ODD-Stop-Means-Stop.html

Suspected Murder-Suicide

in Brooklyn

September 16, 2007
The New York Times
By CARA BUCKLEY
and DARYL KHAN

A woman was shot to death by her companion on a Brooklyn street early yesterday as she tried to flee their burning apartment with her 4-year-old daughter, the police said. The man, who had set the apartment ablaze, then fatally shot himself.

The woman, identified by the police as Christina Scarabaggio, and the man, Christopher Flynn, both 27, were declared dead where they fell, across the street from their second-floor apartment on 62nd Street in Borough Park.

The girl was unharmed and found weeping over her mother’s body. She was taken to Lutheran Medical Center for observation, the police said. She was later released to her father.

The police said that Mr. Flynn had been arrested on Aug. 8 in connection with the assault of Ms. Scarabaggio. She then obtained a restraining order against him, according to the police and court papers.

Neighbors said they heard shouts coming from the couple’s apartment about 4 a.m. It was then, the police believe, that Mr. Flynn set two fires, igniting a dish towel and a teddy bear. Ms. Scarabaggio picked up her daughter and ran across the street to her car, a Nissan, the police said.

She set her daughter down and opened the car door, but Mr. Flynn was right behind her, the police said. He held out a .380-caliber pistol and shot her once in the face, the police said, and then fired three more times before turning the gun on himself. It was not clear where the other bullets went; the police were still collecting ballistic evidence yesterday. One bullet was left in the gun’s chamber, the police said.

Neighbors called 911, and the police arrived moments later and found the bodies and the child. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze.

A woman who lives nearby, Phong Duong, said she heard shots and the girl’s cries, but was too frightened to leave her house.

“I heard bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. After that I heard a little girl crying,” Ms. Duong said.

“I ran to the window. I saw her right there next to her mother,” Ms. Duong said. “She was screaming, ‘Mommy, mommy!’ ”

Shortly before noon yesterday, the girl’s father picked her up at the hospital, and ran to a waiting police car after draping a white sheet over her head. They were driven to the 68th Precinct station house.

The father, who did not give his name, said in an interview outside the station house that Ms. Scarabaggio, a nursing student, had often complained about Mr. Flynn being violent.

He said that Mr. Flynn was a construction worker and had been seeing Ms. Scarabaggio for about two years.

They moved to Borough Park from Mr. Flynn’s parents’ house in Brighton Beach three months ago, he added.

“He’s a violent guy. That’s what she told me,” the father said. “Thank God my daughter’s O.K.”

Suspected Murder-Suicide in Brooklyn,
NYT, 16.9.2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/nyregion/16boropark.html

Astronomers Spot

Exploding Faraway Star

May 8, 2007
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:23 a.m. ET
The New York Times

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A massive exploding faraway star -- the brightest supernova astronomers have ever seen -- has scientists wondering whether a similar celestial fireworks show may light up the sky much closer to Earth sometime soon.

The discovery, announced Monday by NASA, drew oohs and aahs for months from the handful of astronomers who peered through telescopes to see the fuzzy remnants of the spectacular explosion after it was first spotted last fall.

Using a variety of Earth and space telescopes, astronomers found a giant exploding star that they figure has shined about five times brighter than any of the hundreds of supernovae ever seen before, said discovery team leader Nathan Smith of the University of California at Berkeley. The discovery was first made last September by a graduate student in Texas.

''This one is way above anything else,'' Smith told The Associated Press. ''It's really astonishing.''

Smith said the star, SN2006gy, ''is a special kind of supernova that has never been seen before.'' He called the star ''freakily massive'' at 150 times the mass of the sun.

Observations from the Chandra X-ray telescope helped show that it didn't become a black hole like other supernovae and skipped a stage of star death.

Unlike other exploding stars, which peak at brightness for a couple of weeks at most, this supernova, peaked for 70 days, according to NASA. And it has been shining at levels brighter than other supernovae for several months, Smith said.

And even at 240 million light years away, this star in a distant galaxy does suggest that a similar and relatively nearby star -- one 44 quadrillion miles away -- might blow in similar fashion any day now or 50,000 years from now, Smith said. It wouldn't threaten Earth, but it would be so bright that people could read by it at night, said University of California at Berkeley astronomer David Pooley. However, it would only be visible to people in the Southern Hemisphere, he said.

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On the Net:

www.nasa.gov

Astronomers Spot Exploding Faraway Star, NYT, 8.5.2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Supernova.html - broken link

Astronomers Report

Biggest Stellar Explosion

May 7, 2007
The New York Times
By DENNIS OVERBYE

Kaboom, indeed.

In a cascade of superlatives that belies the traditional cerebral reserve of their profession, astronomers reported today that they had seen the brightest and most powerful stellar explosion ever recorded.

The cataclysm — a monster more than a hundred times as energetic as the typical supernova in which the more massive stars end their lives — might be an example of a completely new type of explosion, astronomers said. Such a blast — proposed but never seen — would explain how the earliest and most massive stars in the universe ended their lives and strewed new elements across space to fertilize future stars and planets.

“It is quite possibly the most massive star that has ever been seen to explode,” said Nathan Smith of the University of California, Berkeley, who estimated the star as “freakishly massive,” about 150 times the mass of the Sun.

“We’re really excited about this,” Dr. Smith said. “If it really is what we think it is, it forces us to rethink how massive stars die.” He led a team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas, who have submitted a paper about the supernova to the Astrophysical Journal and discussed the results in a news conference from NASA headquarters today.

Astronomers have been following the star since last September, when it was discovered in a galaxy 240 million light years away in the constellation Perseus by Robert Quimby, a University of Texas graduate student, who was using a small robotic telescope at McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis, Tex., to troll for supernovas.

The star bears an eerie resemblance to one in our own galaxy, Eta Carinae, which has been burbling and bubbling in the last few centuries as if getting ready for its own outburst. The observations suggest that the troubled and enigmatic star, thought to weigh in about 120 solar masses, could blow up sooner than theorists had thought. Mario Livio a theorist at the Space Telescope Science Institute who was not involved in the research, said the death of that star could be “the most spectacular star show in history.”

Cautioning that theorists still do not know for sure what caused the explosion announced today, Dr. Livio said, “Here we have the brightest supernova we have ever observed and we don’t know the explosion mechanism. It doesn’t get any more exciting for a theorist.”

Such supermassive stars are extremely rare in the modern universe but are believed to have been common among the first stars that formed when the universe was less than a billion years old.

“We may be witnessing an example in the local universe of a process quite common in the early universe,” said Alex Filippenko, a team member also from the University of California, Berkeley. The explosion raises astronomers hopes that the next generation of bigger telescopes, like NASA’s coming James Webb Space Telescope, will be able to detect these stars by their explosions.

“Ironically, we might first detect the first generation of stars by their deaths,” Dr. Filippenko said.

Supernovas come about in two basic ways: explosions of small stars about one and half times the mass of the Sun, known as White Dwarfs, and which are uniform enough to serve as cosmological distance markers; and the collapse of the cores of more massive stars into black holes or neutron stars when their thermonuclear fuel has run out.

The astronomers first suspected that the supernova’s dramatic output was caused by the shock wave of a white dwarf exploding into a dense cloud of hydrogen. When observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory failed to find enough X-rays to support that scenario, the group was forced to consider the alternative that the luminosity was produced by the decay of radioactive nickel. But to match the observations, the star would have to produce 22 solar masses of radioactive nickel — way off scale for the core collapse model.

“To get more than 20 solar masses of nickel, you need one heck of a huge star,” Dr. Smith said. In this case, he said, “The core did not collapse, it was blown to smithereens.”

In desperation, the astronomers turned to a theory proposed nearly 40 years ago by Zalman Barkat of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his colleagues. The intensity of radiation in the cores of such supermassive stars could be so great, they said, that pairs of electrons and their antimatter opposites, positrons, would be created.

“That is bad news for the star,” Dr. Livio said, explaining that the disappearance of the radiation would sap the core’s energy and cause the star to collapse. But in this case the star still has plenty of fuel and blows up.

“The core is still composed of explosive oxygen,” explained Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas and another of the paper’s authors. “The oxygen ignites and blows the star to smithereens with no remnant, no black hole left.”

The “pair instability,” as it is known, is particularly relevant to the very first stars, made of pristine hydrogen and helium fresh from the furnace of the big bang. According to theory, they could grow to large size because they lacked the heavier elements, dubbed “metals,” which are very efficient in catching light and thus make modern stars more susceptible to fragmenting during their formation, limiting their sizes. Those metals have been produced by thermonuclear reactions in stars.

It is very convenient, as Dr. Smith and his colleagues pointed out, that the pair mechanism produces an explosion that scatters all the star’s ashes enriched by thermonuclear processing, outward into space instead to down into a black hole.

Dr. Filippenko said, “It effectively fertilizes the material from which second and third generation was made.

The astronomers stressed that this diagnosis, while thrilling, was far from definite. Dr. Wheeler said, “We don’t have a good alternative explanation for the source of luminosity, but we need some smoking gun.”

The star is now going behind the Sun but when it comes out, more observations are planned. The results of those observations could also have implications for those later generation stars, like Eta Carinae.

Astronomers had presumed that heavy stars shed heavy envelopes of hydrogen by winds and burps before reaching the final stage where they implode into black holes. It could be, however, that the most massive stars just can’t shed mass fast enough, Dr. Smith said.

Eta Carinae could blow up sooner than we thought, Dr. Smith said, noting that it could be tomorrow, it could be thousands of years from now. Astronomers have no way of telling.

Even if it did blow as the new supernova did last fall, at a distance of around 7,500 light years, Eta Carinae would be unlikely to cause any serious harm to Earth, astronomers said. The explosion would be visible in the daylight and at night you would be able to read a book by its light.

As for extinguishing life on Earth, “We can sleep quietly tonight,” Dr. Livio said, adding that the puzzle of the supernova would keep astronomers "awake for quite a while."