Ah, shucks: The herpes virus is devastating the oyster harvests of France and Australia, killing millions of the tasty mollusks in just a few days.
Most scientists say climate change is causing the oyster die-off, although a handful of global warming skeptics blame inadequate health education at oyster middle schools.
And that’s The Word: “The Colbert Report” signs off Thursday after nine years on Comedy Central, as host Stephen Colbert retires his bloviating-pundit character.
Colbert may be stepping down, but on any given day, Fox News Channel delivers more straight-up truthiness in one hour than Stephen could muster in a entire month.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1773, American colonists dumped more than 300 cases of tea into Boston Harbor in protest of high tea taxes imposed by Great Britain.
Today’s tea party activists would do the exact same thing — not just because of taxes, but also because tea is something foreigners and liberals drink.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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