Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 20, 2017

Sally Brown is onto the jolly ol’ elf!

You wanna test it for yourself, Sally?

Linus: I thought little girls were innocent and trusting. Sally: Welcome to the 20th century.

And then there are the kids that Santa ignores or gives secondhand toys to. It still happens.

We don’t talk about those cases here, sister dear…

No Sally, Santa is not bluffing, He’s being gracious. Really he’s bringing toys to boost Charlie’s self esteem. He figures while he’s there he’ll leave a few for a brat like you.

Do you feel lucky? Well, do you?

In part is right, to the bad kids, he leaves coal.

Don’t worry! Trump will give them “Clean Coal”! The only problem … it’s imaginary …

“Simul justus et peccator.”

Ever hear of Pascal’s Wager, Sally?

Better watch out Sally, or Santa will shovel out the reindeer stalls to fill your stocking!

What was on Sally’s Christmas List?

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In philosophy 101 we studied the efforts of Kant, Kierkegaard, and the like to prove the existence of God; and the best they could come up with is, “Do you really want to call His bluff?”

There was that one episode of Little House on the Prairie where the older boy told his brother there was no Santa.

There was that one episode of Little House on the Prairie where the older boy told his brother there was no Santa.

Watch it Sally, I remember one Christmas when Santa left black licorice in the stockings of 5 of us kids and nothing else because my mom said we had been bad.

An old legend said that Santa was accompanied by Black Pete, a person who would punish bad kids.