News Of The Week Roundup: Week 12, 2021
Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 01:35PM Happy Sunday! Last week was pretty productive for me, both for the day job and on home improvement projects. Yesterday was warm and sunny, so I put in some new shrubs and ordered patio furniture. Here is a recap of the big or weird stories from the week.
Another week, another mass shooting in America. On Monday, a gunman killed 10 at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado. The gunman is alive and in jail. Still no word on motive - but does that even matter? Also, there was a mass shooting in Virginia Beach, too. That one wasn't "bad enough" to get a lot of cable coverage.
“We could hear a man chuckling,” Angelina Romero-Chavez said. “Gunshots were close. We believe it was him chuckling.” Romero-Chavez and her boyfriend, Amos Plentywolf, hid inside a storage room during the Boulder King Soopers shooting that killed 10. https://t.co/K2Usocl8GG
— The Denver Post (@denverpost) March 28, 2021
The Ever Given is stuck in the Suez Canal. The stuck shipping boat is causing a mess of epic proportions that will likely mean higher prices on everyday goods and shortages of things like toilet paper. Plus there are a lot of live animals on board which will likely starve to death because the ship does not have enough reserve feed for them.
The narrow area of the Suez Canal where one of the world’s biggest ships got stuck carries significant challenges for the specially trained pilots who steer them close to shore. Here's what can cause these vessels to get pushed off course. https://t.co/nHCnlTWCKd
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 25, 2021
This article has an odd take on the shipping disaster:
File this under the "no shit, Sherlock" category:
After spring break, coronavirus cases appear to surge in young Floridians https://t.co/6PXxLvd5DI
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) March 28, 2021
Good news on the American economy during the pandemic. For the first time since COVID-19 took over the world, unemployment claims dropped sharply.
First-time claims for unemployment insurance unexpectedly fell sharply last week amid signs that hiring has picked up in the U.S. economy.
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 25, 2021
Claims totaled 684,000, the first time the number has been below 700,000 during the Covid-19 era. https://t.co/2VM7E8agNZ
Imagine waking up to find a gun in your face and an intruder demanding your cats. It happened in Michigan.
Mich. Man Wakes up to Intruder Holding Gun to His Head, Demanding His 2 Cats https://t.co/2dBkWfxwZ4
— People (@people) March 25, 2021
And I leave you with this:
CIA Admits Role In 1985 Coup To Oust David Lee Roth https://t.co/8B4uVPCbj7 pic.twitter.com/3GGGPMkKss
— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 24, 2021
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And Florida. Well, hmm, it is Florida, the United States' tail. Normally, those things tend to go away through the process of evolution (or prayer, as I am open to various explanations). I think we are stuck with this one! And I can't say we weren't warned. Charles Darwin predicted as much in his less famous _On the Origin of Specious_, which I believe involved some time in Miami Beach.
Hope everyone has a good week. Stay healthy!