The Blog of Fleeced

I’ve been busy this last week, and will probably be busy this week coming too, but I’ll make an effort to keep blogging.  I’ve only been gone a couple days, but there are lots of things in the blogosphere worth drawing people’s attention to.  In no specific order, here are some of them:

Breastfeed Your Way Out of Sexist Oppression.  Jules Crittenden stumbles on an astonishing Islamic ruling:

The head of the Hadith Department in Al-Azhar University, Dr. Izzat Atiyya, recently issued a controversial fatwa dealing with breastfeeding of adults. The fatwa stated that a woman who is required to work in private with a man not of her immediate family – a situation that is forbidden by Islamic law – can resolve the problem by breastfeeding the man, which, according to shari’a, turns him into a member of her immediate family.

The ALS Blog runs a poll on the “best Australian solo libertarian blogger“.  Go on, Vote Fleeced… you know you want to.  Other candidates include Pommygranate, Chris Berg, Bovination, Andrew Norton, Raving Wingnut, Daily Constitutional, Real World Libertarian, Jennifer Marohasy, Double Think, Yobbo, Institutional Economics, Graeme Bird and Whacking Day… but forget them and vote for Fleeced.

Chicks Get Midgets.  Tim Blair discovers the secret motivation of female suicide bombers.

Pommygranate runs through the numbers, to find 47% of UK Voters effectively work for the State, and in another post, reveals that in the UK, stealing is economically rational.

Rudd’s Wife Gets Caught Out.  Naturally, double standards apply.

Tim Flannery displays his economic cluelessness, and elsewhere, suggests skeptics might one day be punished for their doubt:

“We will all be punished for the success of the greenhouse mafia… Perhaps the day will come when a prosecutor in some yet-to-be-formed international court will appear with a copy of Scorcher under his arm.”

In yet more news on the irrationality of environmental economics, a farmer gets paid a million dollars to not clear his land for 120 years.

Negotiations are under way for a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth… possibly in time for the 2008 presidential election (not inconvenient for some!)

Speaking of environmental zealots, millions have died, and many more have suffered, because of the effects of malaria.  DDT could be a lifesaver if we allowed it.