Night Owl Cards

    As you can imagine, living in my remote location it takes awhile for anything to reach us. This is both good and bad. The newest movies and restaurants arrive much later or not at all. Card product -- when it could be found on shelves -- nearly always arrived a week or two later than many other places. And, of course, summer always oversleeps up here. Then there is the "good." Fads almost always take awhile to show up in these parts. I've been watching the online reports of lines snaking from the card aisle through maternity wear. I've seen the fools rush the doors of Targets in a bid to be the first to claim card product that I wouldn't take if it was presented to me in person for free. I've observed fights -- actual fights -- in the aisles. All of this has been on video, of course, because that nonsense hadn't made its way up here all these months. Not even those signs that everyone reports seeing hanging from the card shelves -- purchase cards at th...