What Do I Know?

 The email the other day told me that the plan I'm on with Netflix is being discontinued.  They announced that I would save 40%.  But th...

 He looked and sounded older than he did four years ago.   So what?   He's a decent man.  He's had a good life with some terrible tr...

[Video excerpted from speech to National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983.   Full speech available here.] While Reagan was disti...

From Ursula LeGuin's No Time To Spare : "It's been two months since I blogged.  Considering that I am on the eve of my eighty-f...

 I don't think there are any serious spoilers here.  Inside Man (on Netflix) is going where it's going, no major surprises.   At th...

My brain has been wandering.  I've got half a dozen posts either in draft form or in that wandering brain.  But sitting down to type the...

Bear with me as I wander a bit.  In the end I will recommend you watch Woman in Gold on Netflix.   My mother used to send me clippings abou...

 In this show, the contestant has to answer a multiple choice trivia question. They can win up to $1million.  They have to convince a panel ...

1.   Billion Dollar Code.  It tells the story of two young, idealistic, naive German nerds in the early 90s who create a program that allows...

 Tip 1:  Prosecuting Evil:  The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz    I'm doing this one first because it leaves Netflix on May 31 - so ...

My oldest granddaughter is eight.  She's been FaceTiming with me fairly regularly.  Also teaching me the whole emoji alphabet and how to...

When I was a grad student I wrote, in my head, what I called at the time, a 'social science fiction' novel.  That was back in the mi...

I'll try to keep this short.  Trying to write on something a little lighter than the elections. Think of it as notes to readers about Ne...

Stateless is an Australian TV series about an immigration detention camp, "based on true events".  The key event is an Australian...