The New Bacon Currency - Dogs Don't Know It's Not Money

Here's a guy after my own heart, um, stomach. He's bartering his way across the country with 3,000 pounds of bacon.

“There’s this fever for bacon in this country,” said Tom Bick, director for integrated marketing communications and advertising at Oscar Mayer in Madison, Wis.
 

As food prices keep rising, this might be a good idea.

(a spatula salute! to Instapundit)

Bacon = Hate, Fort Hood Massacre Doesn't?

You're gonna love this. Yet more proof, as if we needed it, that everything is backwards.

Muslims who gathered for prayer to celebrate the end of Ramadan in a city park found bacon scattered on the ground, CBS 2’s John Slattery reported Monday.

“This has been determined to be a bias event on the part of our Hate Crimes Task Force,” NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters, including WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb.

“On a website associated with this celebration was some derogatory comments and at the site itself, three packages of raw bacon were found,” Kelly added.

 Yes, buckaroos and buckarettes, bacon is now a hate crime. But the massacre at Ft. Hood in which 13 soldiers were gunned down in cold blood by a card-carrying "soldier of allah" is still being treated as an incident of "workplace violence."

Commander Ripley has the right question...