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The 100th anniversary of the late cartoonist Charles Schulz's birthday came and went last week without any notice anywhere, that I saw. And so, with thanks to Mark, I pen my own little tribute here to one of the great creative geniuses in American history. If you were young at any time between 1950 (when Schulz first began publishing his comic strip Peanuts) and 2000, when Schulz died at the age of 77, you grew up in a world in which everyone read the latest Peanuts comic strip (particularly in the US and Canada) as part of their daily newspaper...

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I just saw this in my in basket. Some moron is calling 'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' racist. Know why? Franklin is sitting on a lawn chair while the white kids are sitting at dining chairs. My God, these morons (and libs are) are really reaching to see racism. Mom and dad said that Charles Schultz created Franklin and he was the first black in the comics. I know I'm a teen, but libs, you are getting stupider. Franklin in a lawn chair, but libs, it is a cartoon. I never saw a dog operate a toaster (or type) in real...

It first aired on television sets across America back in 1965 — and it’s been running ever since.This week, ABC will air the show to millions of adoring fans, old and new alike. Indeed, it now seems inconceivable to think of the holiday season without the classic cartoon, but the story of how “A Charlie Brown Christmas” came to be is in itself a classic American story — or, more accurately, how it almost didn’t come to be.Charles Schulz, the show’s creator, had some fundamental ideas about the 30-minute Christmas special. One of them had to do with a reading...