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At least it's colorful

  Last Thursday I had a few errands to run, almost none that I wanted to run. One of them was a dentist visit, so once that was done, I figured I deserved a trip to the card aisle. My card aisle visits are down to maybe eight times a year -- remember those once-, twice-a-week journeys? -- so it had been a little while. Recent history told me Walmart was the place to go (Target had been hopeless for going on a couple years), so I stopped only to see what looked like three workers huddled up next to where the sports cards go, chatting away. Two of the guys had to be at least 6-4 so I wasn't busting in only to see nothing. So I checked out Target.   The shelves there were the typical blizzard of hockey, basketball, nonsports something and Topps complete sets. But I saw one lowly blaster of this year's Allen & Ginter sticking out, which was just what I wanted.   A&G and I no longer see eye-to-eye. It's been that way for a few years now. But there is always a little bi...