News Of The Week Roundup: Week 9, 2021

Written By Allyson B. Crawford
We are so close to spring, warmer weather and more sunlight. Daylight Savings Time begins in just one week! The day the clocks spring forward is always one of my most favorite of the year. Then we march toward June where it is light until 10 p.m. here in southern Ohio. Glorious!


Another week has come and gone. Time for a news roundup of stuff I thought was interesting, weird or important.


Trump's White House doctor Ronny Johnson is in hot water with the Pentagon.



I don't even know what to say about New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. What a shitshow. Between allegations of sexual misconduct to apparently cooking the books on COVID nursing home deaths, it's just going from bad to worse. I do have to question, though: what about all the QAnon nuts who were screaming that every death in New York was being counted as COVID? Hard to make that argument (again, based in no reality) when Cuomo was allegedly doing everything possible to decrease the number of COVID counted deaths. Oy.



The Golden Globes were on Sunday night. I do not watch awards shows but I know that my beloved Schitt's Creek won for best comedy. I am so sad the show is over but it left us on a high note!



Also a big winner at the Golden Globes was Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. I read the book a couple years ago while on vacation. It's the type of book that is haunting. It just stays with you. Like, it is so good, I will find myself randomly thinking about it from time to time. The book is a piece of long-form journalism by Jessica Bruder. I am planning on watching the movie soon.




Texas is dropping all COVID restrictions on Wednesday. Considering Texas is almost last in vaccination numbers and highest in new cases, I think this is a little premature. Concerts can go back to full capacity in the Lone Star State and they can in Mississippi, too. Again, a little premature. We are SO CLOSE. Let's not blow it. And on that note, this obituary is tough, but fair.



New research says lifting weights for the arms can actually make you a better runner. I am trying to get better at lifting period. I even have a fancy Tempo just for weight training. I just prefer cardio so much. I get bored lifting and I am weak. And yes, this means I should lift more, I know!



And I leave you with this... intergalactic travel is coming soon, apparently. You know, for those who can afford it.


Allyson B. Crawford
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