Florida Politicians Shake a Possum
Not sure what Katherine Harris is doing in this photograph? I don’t blame you, it seems absurd. Yet, your eyes are not fooling you. She’s holding a possum by the tail, and shaking it.
It seems that, every year down in Wausau, Florida, locals raise money by convincing gullible politicians that in order to win their elections, they have to come to their town and eat possum. They win extra points if they say that it doesn’t taste so bad. The politicians also place bids against each other in a possum auction. After the auction, they pick up their possum by the tail and shake it, so that they can prove their ability to… uh… pick up a possum by the tail and shake it.
This seems like the equivalent of dwarf tossing in the animal world, I can’t figure out who this is more inhumane to - the possums or the politicians. Well, no one’s eating the politicians, or bidding for the privilege of shaking them by the tail.
Some might make the comment that maybe Katherine Harris’s campaign for US Senate is just playing possum, getting ready for a surprise comeback in October. But no, Florida’s political coroners have checked, and the Harris for Senate campaign is genuinely dead.
