Saturday, March 19, 2011

Pennsylvania: Gov. Corbett to every single school in PA -- tonight I'm frakking you

Sadly, this post is not about a geek tribute to Princess Leia and Skin Jobs.  (Metafilter)  And maybe the schools would be down with it if Corbett was hot and sexy like that sexy sexy Gov Christie. (Inquirer).  Anyways, given that the proposed cuts to higher education are, according to Penn officials, the most dramatic defunding of education in the history of the country, maybe it's understandable why people are not rushing to congratulate Gov. Corbett on his plan.  And because not everybody in PA is taking whatever drugs the Gov is on, people reasonably would like the natural gas industry that poisoning our state unhindered by needed regulation to pony up, you know, a little bit in the way of tax revenues -- thus allowing the state to not, you know, take college opportunities away from poor kids. (ABC). But probably the Gov is not going to actually do what the voters would like him to do.  Some hints of this:  A top Corbett aide compared the documentary Gasland -- the Oscar-nominated film about the hazards of frakking -- to Nazi propaganda.  (Daily News).  The Daily News also wonders if Corbett is declaring war on education.  And so it goes.

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