The Least of These
There are still rays of hope in these dark days, as I found when checking Drudge this evening. A drunken Pennsylvania man gave the last full measure trying to resuscitate a dead possum. Alas, no good deed goes unpunished.
State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth “resuscitation” to a long-dead opossum along a highway.
Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal along Route 36 in Oliver Township Thursday about 3 p.m. The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance, while another saw the mouth-to-mouth attempt.
This is one of those times when the possibility of a neo-agrarian national coalition really comes home to you. Of course, being that it was in Punxutawney and both possum and man were smashed (in their respective ways), he probably thought he was saving a groundhog.
In the spirit of Christian charity and Southern goodfellowship, however, we must not examine too closely; rather, we should raise a glass of bourbon in a tribute to a noble act on behalf of one of the least of these, our marsupial brethren.
One of my colleagues performed a similar act, raising a litter of possums after his dogs killed the mother. Here’s one of the critters in my pocket.



