A Whole Lotta Bitin' Going On

Things got so testy at a health care rally last night in Thousand Oaks (near Los Angeles) that an attendee had their pinkie finger bitten off.

Numerous media outlets are reporting that a 65-year-old man rallying against President Obama's reform ideas had his finger bitten off by a pro-reformer during a scuffle. The action all took place as an estimated 100 supporters of health care reform affiliated with Moveon.org had gathered as part of a nationwide array of pre-Labor Day rallies to attract attention in support of Obama's reform plans currently being debated before Congress (www.latimes.com)

Anti-health care-reform protesters gathered across the street and the suspect decided to join them. Pretty soon, biting ensued.

There have been conflicting reports on which side did the biting and who's hurting, but one thing is for sure, this is not a good way to move forward on this debate. As you readers know, I personally attended a health care debate on Monday night and walked away from it wanting to fight someone. Now, I haven't been in a fight in many years and I'm not sure my pearly whites would get involved in an altercation, but I can understand the anger this biter probably had all built up inside. I'm not condoning biting, spitting, tasering or dumping liquid acid on anyone, but I do understand where those sentiments are coming from.

Scratch the part above where I said this isn't a good way to move forward on this debate. I'm actually becoming more pro-biting as I type this. By the way, the anti-health care guy lost his pinkie finger. It's not like he lost a real important finger like the index or middle. Now if he had lost his thumb, I would really come out against such biting, but the pinkie finger is useless just like the pinkie toe. Plus considering what side the older man is on in the debate you have to assume he has a great health insurance plan.