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It's time once again ...

... for every card blogger's favorite TV game show: Welcome! Welcome! Thank you! Thank you! Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of "What's the Best Card in the Package." This is your host Night Owl, guiding you again through another exciting trade package. As you know, on this show we don't merely reveal the package's contents. We select 16 cards from the package and pit them against each other in a winner-take-all, death match until only ONE CARD, the most fantastic of the most fantastic, remains. Exciting isn't it? Well, let's get started. On tonight's show, we are featuring the cards from Bud of the blog  First Day Issue . Bud has graced "What's the Best Card in the Package" with an eclectic selection of items, which always makes for a very special edition of WTBCITP, as the kids call it. So let's start matching cards up and knocking them down. But first this message: And we're back! You all kno...

Badass or bad imitation?

I've got very little time today. Work is calling. And this isn't going to be a five-minute chat. It's going to be a long, drawn-out, "how the hell can anyone TALK so much," please-kill-me-now conversation. So, I have a quick question for you, and that will be it until I can come up for air. Here is the background before the question: As you know I have something called the "I'm Badass and You're Not" Club. It's frivolous . It's meaningless. But it amuses me. And like anything that amuses me, I take it seriously. I only want people that I deem worthy enough to be in the club. The first requirement is the player had to play in the '70s. If you weren't part of the '70s, then you're not badass . Find some other definition to describe large, intimidating, put-you-in-the-ground players. The second requirement is the player meets my own extremely subjective rules. All kinds of things come into to play here. I mentioned before th...