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You Gotta Love that Large Hadron Collider

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This article, from the New York Times a few months ago, has to be one of the weirdest I ever read.

A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the
hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the
collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple
backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one,
like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

I wonder if this could be put to practical use.

Mystery Solved

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A little while ago, I did a "How to Draw Doug" installment in a Super-Fun-Pak, and then followed with a blog post showing an older "How to Draw Doug."  I knew this older one wasn't the first one I'd done, but I couldn't find an earlier one in any Super-Fun-Paks.

I finally remembered where I first drew a "How to Draw Doug":  It was in a Tom the Dancing Bug comic book, published in 1995.  The comic book was a compilation of published strips, but I drew up original material for the inside front cover, including this:

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Tim Russert, we hardly knew ye

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I read that editorial cartoonists are calling out NBC's Meet The Press and its host David Gregory for referring to their cartoons, but failing to mention the cartoonist's name.

Years ago on Meet The Press, in one of the highlights of my career, Tim Russert held then-Majority Leader Senator Tom Daschle to account by reading to him a Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip poking fun of him.  Russert very nicely stated the name of the comic strip, which he called, after a thoughtful pause, "interesting."

$4,674 RAISED IN TOM THE DANCING BUG HAITIAN RELIEF CHALLENGE

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Wow, Tom the Dancing Bug readers were always known for their enthusiasm for ghost stories involving 1970s-era actors, their questionable use of grammar and punctuation in Facebook comments, and of course their dubious taste in comic strips.  But I have to thank you now for your generosity.

I said I would create special Tom the Dancing Bug drawings for the top two donors, but there was a tie for second place, so I'll create three drawings — which I'm happy to do, given the amount raised for the Save the Children Haiti Earthquake Emergency Fund, $4,674!

1. J.L. from Richmond, Va.
2. Philip Apps
2. Bruce L., from Cambridge (UK)

Thank you to the winners, and to everyone who participated and is now an official Friend of Tom the Dancing Bug.

And thanks to all those who helped spread the word about the Challenge, including the ones I know of:  bloggers/humanitarians John Glynn, Tom Spurgeon, Alan Gardner, and Mike Rhode.

The Challenge is over, but of course you can still donate through the Tom the Dancing Bug donation page.