Hawk's View
from this side of Frog Pond Holler


When Tom Corbett assumed residency at the governor’s mansion in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s collective priority list became dramatically reordered. Values long upheld by citizens on both sides of the partisan divide were henceforth dismissed with shocking, unprecedented plutocratic abandon.
“We need to do the hard cutting so the tree can once again bear fruit,” said the freshman governor.
Only problem with that, Tom: the tree you mention stands dying in a radioactive cesspool of “hydrofracking” fluid.