[Cathryn Crawford]

I think I'm going to get this done. What do ya'al think?

[hole_n_one]

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[Paul Atreides]

Some actually find the experience spiritual.

When I first read of this, I kinda figured there must be some P.C. angle to it. I think that a some people see native cultures doing stuff like this and think that they must do it in order to be cool.

[Cachelot]

The new fashion in the State Department?

[JennysCool]

AP interviewed 19-year-old James Keen, pictured above, and asked him why he did this. "When uh first thaw it, uh thought tongue-thplitting was the motht beautiful thing U've theen in muh life," he said.

[Sub-Driver]

More evidence that we are witnessing the end of western civilization…....

[ElkGroveDan]

It won't be long before they will demand that Medicare pay for the procedure. And if it proves unwanted, painful or life-threatening in the long run, they will demand federal dollars for research to correct the condition -- with many touching sob stories.

I bet they even come up with their own color ribbon.

[Blue Screen of Death]

Youth peopleth donth appricateth bodyth arth.

[caisson71]

I hear the Democrats are all for this. It gives new meaning to the Indian term "speaking with a forked tongue".

[CGASMIA68]

New meaning to "speak with forked tongue"

[Fresh Wind]

Some actually find the experience spiritual.

Yeah, the ones who worship Satan.

[CathyRyan]

G*d I am getting old. I just to not see this in any way shape or fashion.

[Neenah]

The craze, which involves surgically splitting the tongue to make it look like a lizard's tongue, has been branded a mutilation by legislators in Illinois.

Source

[Newbomb Turk]

Way to go DumbAss.

[ladyinred]

Democrats have had forked tongues for years, what is so new about this? :-)

Seriously, this is just horrific, and should be outlawed.

[Abogado]

Brings to mind the old Indian saying.

Forked tongue drives squaw up tee pee wall :/

[Drew68]

Meanwhile, some lawmakers are so outraged by the procedure they are using the power of their office to make it illegal. One such person is Illinois state Rep. David Miller from Chicago's south suburbs who has authored a bill that requires tongue-splitting to be performed only for medical reasons and only by a doctor or dentist.

OK, don't get me wrong. I think the procedure is silly, stupid, disgusting, probably dangerous and likely to lead to a lifetime of regret in the majority of people who get it done.

But do we need a law against it??? I am so sick of this mindset that says we need to make laws to protect people from their own foolish choices.

Anyone dumb enough to undergo "Tongue splitting" can damn well face the consequences of their actions ten years down the road when they look at themselves in the mirror and wonder "Why the hell did I do that?"

[unixfox]

...some lawmakers are so outraged by the procedure they are using the power of their office to make it illegal.

How come you don't hear from these same "outraged" lawmakers about making the murder of unborn children illegal?

[Agricola]

I will never get tounge piercing- or any piercing other than ears.

[Hot Tabasco]

Meanwhile, some lawmakers are so outraged by the procedure they are using the power of their office to make it illegal.

More waste of elected lawmaker time and my money.............