Night Owl Cards

  I don't have very much time for cards today, nor tomorrow. But a Very Important Package arrived at my home last night and it's got to be addressed in some sort of fashion here.   Yes, this is the start of approximately 158 posts about 2024 Heritage on this blog this year. You're welcome!   I went ahead and pre-ordered a box of Heritage over the weekend. I chose Dave & Adam's for one very strategic reason: I live less than four hours away from the place and I knew I'd get it fast. I did not expect it to show up the day before release date. For the first time in my life, I had it in my hands on release date (which is today, FYI).   That's appropriate since I have been waiting for this set since I knew what Heritage was, which was around 2006. So, 18 years I've been waiting for Topps to fully invest in the 1975 set and design.   Now, in those 18 years a lot has happened. Heritage used to faithfully create each set based on the year it was featuring. It lo...

Taking a cue from Cardboard Junkie , I'm eradicating a handful of posts that have been overtaken by spammers and the like. Just a few days ago, I added one of those "most popular posts" gadgets to my sidebar, but then took it down because I remembered that we can't have nice things because "most popular" means "most visits by web-bots" in the google world. So in a futile effort to give meaning to the stats that Blogger provides, you won't see a couple of posts no more. They're gone. Don't worry, they were just trade posts. (Dave Cash doesn't know what to think of this, but trust me, sir, it will be OK). I've provided the images that are worth saving here so you won't feel deprived: And here is a repeat of my thanks from the original posts: Thanks to Spiegel and Bo and gcrl , they were great cards, they ARE great cards. Unfortunately, I couldn't duplicate all the comments...

Some people don't believe in God. An omniscient, all-powerful entity that sees all, knows all and loves all is beyond their abilities of comprehension. I'm not one of those people. I'm not going to go into the reasons why or have a debate. This is not a theological blog. But I will give you the one-word reason for why I do believe. Faith. Nothing different than the next believer. Faith, or "trust," runs the world in many ways. It runs churches, hospitals and schools. It's the undercurrent in business, government and functioning society. It creates good neighbors, marriages, parents and children. We owe a lot of what's good in the world to faith, the belief in the good of your fellow man, and the belief in the good of a divine god. Because, let's face it, if there were no believers -- no one who believed in the good of God and no one who believed in the good of their fellow man, anarchy would be everyone's No. 1 problem. Belief is v...