"Deeply flawed."  For the past several months--and when certain detractors and repetitive TV commentators were looking for adjectival description to describe HRC, that seems to be the phrase of choice.  Why?  Who knows ... maybe someone found actual evidence of something that hasn't been found in the past 25 years of dredging.  Forgetting the obvious fact that every politician (and everyone, for that matter) are flawed in some respect, the phrase has the advantage of meaning nothing while suggesting something foreboding, murky.  Maybe HRC has been having séances with Vincent Foster???

So, today on CBS Morning, guest Frank Luntz incorporated that both candidates were "deeply flawed" into his word maneuver ... and, emphasized also how both candidates were so disliked.  Blah, blah, blah.  Moving toward the false equivalency in terms of character definition, as Krugman might say.  He talked a bit about all the negative reactions to Trump in various groups; then, jumped to what he portrayed as a reality about HRC ... his assertion being that she is having trouble with her own party liking/accepting her as seen in Indiana. Well, he conveniently forgets that @ 1 in 5 voters in that open primary were Independents and that she always wins handily among Dems (and that the acceptance numbers are already near the 90& level, a very good level before the unification of the party's convention.) The point: Master Repub Wordsmith Luntz is offering the first of the tsk-tsk they-are-so-much-alike process.  

The stakes being so acute, it behooves the Sanders' campaign to hang it up, now.  A difficult call given the wins to come in May, thereby, bringing the illusion of a fuel additive to the tank. But, realistically, no mileage will be gained. Sanders has done what he can do. Take a bow, and exit.

Trump can't be allowed to win by a disunited party. This has been a Democratic primary--an intra-party competition. Loving Bernie did not require hating Hillary, and vice versa.  The winner is determined by the delegate count. And, the arithmetic is there to see.  

But I grieve that The Americans didn't find a way to apply Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress to Martha. It's an opportunity lost.

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Second, more damaging, is the false equivalence and the striving for "balance."  The example given is the wildly irresponsible and asymmetric policies: Trump's huge tax cuts with no offsetting spending cuts and promise to pay down the debt v. Mrs. Clinton's proposed modest spending increases paid for by specific tax hikes. Or, they all do it; Mrs. Clinton and Trump both fight dirty: Trump calls opponents liars, questions their manhood, suggests father involved in JFK murder.  Mrs. Clinton suggests Sanders did not do his homework on his key policies.

For Mexican food, I will always love Chiles Rellenos and Cheese Enchiladas.  The best!

A commercial failure in 1973, Belladonna Of Sadness bankrupted Mushi, the pioneering Japanese animation studio founded by the great Osamu Tezuka. Now touring in an uncut restoration, this freak-out of subtexts and limited animation techniques by Tezuka's close collaborator, Eiichi Yamamoto, stands as one of the most unusual and challenging animated features of its time--no small feat, given that its contemporaries include not only René Laloux's Fantastic Planet and the early features of Ralph Bakshi, but also Tezuka and Yamamoto's A Thousand And One Nights and Cleopatra. Belladonna Of Sadness was intended as a follow-up to those two earlier features--in their own way as strange and experimental as this movie--but was only begun after Tezuka had left Mushi to start a new company. In lieu of his rounded figures and lines, it looks to art nouveau, expressionist figure drawing, and the fashions of the time for influence, slipping through a dazzling array of styles.

Inspired by the work of Jules Michelet--the 19th century French historian who, among other things, named the Renaissance--Belladonna Of Sadness straddles the line between academia and obscenity. Yamamoto and his team transform Michelet's theory of witchcraft as a form of rebellion against political and religious oppression into an anti-authoritarian parable that combines feminist agitprop, erotic art, and the rape-revenge plotting of the era's sexploitation films. In feudal France, a young woman named Jeanne (Aiko Nagayama) defies the powers that be--explicitly connected with sexual violence and repressed desire--through sexual pleasure and its mythological analogue, magic. Perhaps too ambitious for its own good (or at least its budget), the film is impossible to dismiss, even if it exhausts its reserve of ideas.

I did not post the first paragraph of this review because it contained so many words that I thought might be "flagged"

The animated psychosexual freak-out Belladonna Of Sadness is a major re-discovery

It's one f a bunch of classics that have been released recently in restored versions.  There is the King Hu films

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He does not like his protesters to disrupt a candidate's meeting inside, but outside -- well, that's free speech. She reminded him that his protesters were carrying signs outside a Clinton event that said "Liar, liar, liar" and other unpleasant things, telling her to drop put of the presidential race, etc. He was not worried in the least about this. Free speech, to him.

She said Democrats were worried about Bernie and Hillary  not coming together and this being bad for the party. He will do all in his power to defeat Trump but has no plans for his movement if he doesn't become president.

Two women have been kicked out of the University of Albany and indicted for allegedly making up a false story of being attacked while riding a bus.    

Their accusations gained national attention, but they have since been charged for making the story up and in fact starting the fight.

The three were indicted by a grand jury and arraigned for 10 misdemeanor charges, including assault, attempted assault and false reporting, along with a violation for harassment.

Saying he would probably give up smoking pot if elected president.  Then acted like he was joking.

Why, YES!  She did.

Weird but wonderful.

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Patti LuPone is back for more "Penny Dreadful."

The Broadway legend, who guest starred as Joan Clayton (aka the Cut-Wife) in the sophomore season of Showtime's Victorian England-set horror series, is back for season 3 as a series regular. She'll also be playing a new role: Dr. Seward, an American therapist who treats Eva Green's bewitching Vanessa Ives with an unconventional new approach.