Two days ago I posted  The Story of Netflix .  For those who read it--as, for some reason, there were a lot of readers--here will be the  new 2024 programs  on this streaming channel, courtesy of  Time  magazine.  Also, to aid in your watching plan, what series and films will be departing.  One series in particular caught my attention, starring Michelle Yeoh in eight episodes of  The Brothers Sun .  Who is she? Best Actress Oscar for  Everything Everything All at Once . Also in  Crazy Rich Asians ,  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon  and  Tomorrow Never Dies . Was Miss World Malaysia 1983. She's 60 years old. I was planning to spend today doing my prediction of what would be occurring next year.  I got depressed, for it looks like Donald Trump will dominate.  So my choice of this posting today came only after I stayed in bed all morning to watch  Radio Days , a 1987 film written, directed and voiced by Woody Allen.  The story itself was nothing much, but the cast was noteworthy. Dann

  For some, there is Heaven.  Of course, Heaven means different things to people, as, for example, to Fred Astaire singing   Cheek to Cheek   in Top Hat, it's dancing with Ginger Rogers.  This version finished #15 on AFR's 100 Years of 100 Songs, and   Rotten Tomatoes  reviewers gave the movie a 100% rating.   Then there was that  promise of 72 virgins in heaven  for Muslim martyrs, but you had to be a male to take advantage of this reward.  Then again, maybe not.  However, more recently, it was determined that there was a mistranslation of the  Quran , and the truth was that it was raisins, not virgins.  Some have even pinpointed white raisins. To most, though, Heaven is an ultimate place where you live in harmony and comfort forever.  Yes, an  eternal afterlife .  Yet, maybe this is only for Christians and Muslims.  Although Buddhists can attain Nirvana and Hindus can become one with the Brahman, which sounds like a kind of heaven.  Don't have time for all  4,000 religion

Is Delta Airlines being hurt by the Delta variant?   For one, they don't mention that strain by name.  CEO Ed Bastian indicated they haven't seen any impacts for this unfortunate similarity.  He also indicated that 72% of their staff is vaccinated, and the vast majority of passengers likewise. A coming book by two  Washington Post  reporters, Carol Leonnig and Phillip Rucker,  I Alone Can Fix It:  Donald J. Trumps's Catastrophic Final Year , reveals fully expected, but still shocking news.   A CNN report  on how top U.S. generals planned on ways to stop Trump.  At the top, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley is quoted to say:   They may try, but they're not going to f---ing succeed . On 4 January 2021 I said: I've long felt that his Hail Mary would be to get his Department of Defense ( after all, he is Commander in Chi ef ), to support him in just taking over the government if everything else fails.  That discharge of Secretary of Defense Mark