Dexter Resurrection  and  The Rainmaker  are two series I'm currently watching not from Netflix or Prime. Dexter Resurrection  ( Rotten Tomatoes , 94/86 ) is the latest continuation of  Dexter  ( RT  71/81 ) starring Michael C. Hall, which began on Showtime in 2006, and endured for seven seasons.   In that original series, Hall played Dexter Morgan, a forensic technician for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department. However, he led a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer of murderers Extremely bloody and gory, but nothing compared to  Squid Game  ( RT  86/66 ) from South Korea.  In a ranking by  IMDb  ten years ago,  Dexter  was #14 in a list of 18 most gory and bloody shows.  Earlier this year  Collider  had a top ten most violent shows of all time, and neither series was included.  Three were animated productions and most violent was  Warrior  (2019-present...

My Sundays are usually devoted to something spiritual, and sometimes personal.  About the latter topic, in May of 2014 I began a 15-part series on my life transitions.    Part 1   dealt with an overview and my early youth, while  Part 15E  a couple months later was on the afterlife. Transitions  6  and 7 caught my attention, so today, I'll focus on one of them.  After graduating from high school in 1958, off I flew to Los Angeles.  This was the first time I had left Hawaii, and this was perhaps my most monumental transition: I was fortunate that my older brother was a structural engineer with the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL) at Port Hueneme, California.  He got me a slot as a draftsman there and I also stayed with he and his family the whole summer ( and repeated this two more times, with the summer between my junior and senior years in Hilo, Hawaii with C. Brewer--where the   little league baseball team   pla...

First, two comments about our president, Donald Trump.   Remember how I've been telling you that Trump failed in his 6January2021 coup attempt mostly because he had no real control of the Department of Defense? Well, he is acting more swiftly than I thought, for  yesterday he fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General C.Q. Brown , who has been in the military for over 40 years, whose term in this position was supposed to end in September of 2027.   Trump gave no explanation on why. Trump also replaced Admiral Lisa Franchetti, head of the U.S. Navy, as well as the Air Force Chief of Staff and the judge advocates general for the Army, Navy and Air Force.  They ensure enforcement of military justice. Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the firings were "un-American, unpatriotic, and dangerous for our troops and our national security. This is the definition of politicizing our military," he said. President Trump now ha...