Three weeks ago, the mainstream media went into overdrive attempting to explain the cause of two mass bird deaths and a large fish kill.  Absurd theories abounded in newspapers, magazines, and on television.  State wildlife officials in Arkansas and Louisiana (where the birds fell dead from the sky) only added to the confusion and speculation.  Keith Stephens, a representative from the the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, asserted that the 5,000 Red-winged blackbirds found dead at Beebe, Arkansas, may have all died in one huge collective heart attack during a New Year’s Eve fireworks display.  According to Stephens, fireworks exploded somewhere in Arkansas (he did not specify where), the birds became frightened, and then 5,000 of them suffered a simultaneous, mid-air cardiac arrest, after which they all fell stone dead to the ground. Continue Reading »