California health insurance<\/a> agents pay homage to Charlie Brown\u2019s comic strip deity.<\/p>\n In the legendary comic strip \u201cPeanuts,\u201d created by the late Charles Schultz, Shultz\u2019s young hero Charlie Brown celebrated Halloween in a pumpkin patch where The Great Pumpkin sat. The cartoon boy with an \u201cevery boy\u2019s\u201d persona would ask the Great Pumpkin arcane questions about life; and in a manner of being, the inanimate orange harvest veggie assumed the stature of an odd deity \u2013 or at least a sage in the tradition of certain gods transported from Greek Mythology.<\/p>\n As a religion, such a pumpkin cult has its merits, and in these days of strident calls for health care reform, certain California Health Insurance<\/a> agents have taken to visiting pumpkin patches in search of their own personal Great Pumpkin that may exist in the nether regions between Visalia and Fresno. For days the search for this orange quasi-deity has continued unabated, (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" California health insurance agents pay homage to Charlie Brown\u2019s comic strip deity. In the legendary comic strip \u201cPeanuts,\u201d created by the late Charles Schultz, Shultz\u2019s young hero Charlie Brown celebrated Halloween in a pumpkin patch where The Great Pumpkin sat.…<\/span><\/p>\n