Headline: Shark sightings put Cape on alert.

Story: "Year-round residents aren't fazed."

A real newspaper would hire some gruff, squint-eyed sea captain so the reporter could get into a shark cage and go mano-a-finno with the Great Beast. Surely, two-fisted Herald maritime reporter O'Ryan Johnson isn't scared of a little fish, is he?

So, anyone know what the big fuss is by Sedgwick and South? Looks like either someone was very much on the losing end of a contest with the 39 bus, or it dropped half its engine on the street. Boston Police were out in force, redirecting southbound traffic away from the scene, and a lone MBTA supervisor was slooooooowly sweeping up what looked like kitty litter, which was hopefully for oil...

No word, of course, on the alert page.

Now that they've exposed Obama's plan to kill your grandmother, the wingnuts are flooding Massachusetts with urgent warnings that Massachusetts plans to force people to get flu shots this fall.

Not true, says Domenico Bettinelli, no fan of Democrats:

... I encourage you to read the whole bill as I did. You will [read] that not only does the bill not say that a person can be vaccinated against his will, it says the exact opposite. ...

Rep. Stephen Lynch throws hat in ring.