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One of the current headlines in the news is about whether President Trump will agree to a sit-down  with Mueller's team.  This means he will meet with a bunch of lawyers out to get him and he comes with a bunch of lawyers trying to save him.  Oh, well.  The point here is such a meeting once upon a time was called an interview or a deposition.  Not no more, baby!  Mafia movies have so infiltrated out culture, we are using language from them.  In such flicks, a sit-down was when one party had a grievance against another, and permission from the mob bosses was needed before the administration of a redress, i.e. a hit.  Or is it because much of our public has no concept of what a deposition means.  As a nation of the intelligent, we are rapidly losing it. What's next?  A subpoena for a sit-down ?  (The law meets the mafia?)  Funny.

The Republican captured the statehouses in Maryland and Massachusetts last night.  This is good and bad.  It is of course good for the Republicans, for obvious reasons.  It is not good for the Republicans, as well.  Even these, the bluest of the blue states can say enough is enough.  We are being taxed to the max, but things are not getting better.  Time for a switch.  Okay, the switch is in.  But the problems in these two states are serious and not surmountable in the short four year gubernatorial term.  Repairing the problems could take a generation, not just a term.  So, the Democrats will be undiminished, already fueling their next campaigns with slogans such as "We gave them a chance, and see there is no real change."  Blue states such as these will heed the lesson, and revert to their natural rather blue roots. The Republicans probably think they can affect the culture of their states with well intended and maybe stringent programs about fiscal responsibility, not r