There is much hand-wringing in Cardinal Nation.  We'd rather there were neck-wringing, starting at the top of this organization.  Our frustration trickles all the way down to our stubborn closer and his insistence that The Cutter remain an integral part of his arsenal, as it were.  Well of course he's not going to change.  And his manager is not going to demote him or demand that he change his stripes.  As a result, we've broken out in a cold sweat and can't seem to shake it.  There is plenty of anxiety to go around.   So our choices are two:

--don't watch
--self-medicate

Let me say up front that the best solution would be some rotation of those two options, or the first one by itself.  

Remember kids: don't do drugs.  

But yesterday--being the team player that I am--I offered to work on a formula for the latter option.  

I arrived one step closer to the answer last night. With Mulder's return it would be unlikely that Izzy's services would be needed for this one.  So I decided that, early in this contest, I needed to go hard or go home.  And since I was already home...  

Day 1: Miller High Life and black tar heroin.  

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