My Life With Bacon

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues with an old tweet by a justice and a new twist, and a new location for Bar Bacon. BACON IN THE NEWS Aside from Kevin Bacon being selected for a new   Tremors reboot pilot , it appears that bacon has made it to Congressional testimony this week. Interesting article in Business Insider: " Patrick Leahy, a top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday questioned a federal judgeship nominee's ability to interpret Supreme Court precedent over a tweet about wanting a constitutional right to marry bacon." Back in 2015, Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett tweeted a satirical comment, basically saying that same-sex marriage was a slippery slope and that he'd support marrying his bacon.  Funny - if you look at the tweet, 76 people "loved" it at that point in time. This is pretty funny, and reminiscent of the young man in the UK (about whom I've written previously) who changed his name to "Bacon Do...

MY LIFE WITH BACON CONTINUES this week with another crime story. BACON IN THE NEWS Ok, while this one isn't exactly bacon (but it could contain pork), a man was arrested after having robbed a hot dog stand in Chicago. After robbing the place, he reached for his pistol and apparently shot himself in the leg and in the pecker. Even though this isn't directly about bacon, it is about a smoked meat product, possibly pork, and the story is too good to pass up. The robbery happened at Maxwell's Classic Polish on the South side. Here's a picture and a quote from the Chicago Tribune : "Police were called to 700 block of West 116th about 6 a.m. Tuesday  regarding a person shot and found Pouncy with two gunshot wounds, one to the right thigh and one to the penis, according to his arrest report."