Friday digest II

- Perhaps I'm a knuckle-dragger, intolerant, or both, but there is an article in this week's issue of Maclean's which discusses how, after conducting an Internet search for a willing participant, a single gay man from Vancouver paid a married woman with two kids already from southern Ontario $20,000 to artificially inseminate herself with his sperm. After a C-section, twins entered into the world and he flew them home to raise them on his own as a single father.

I can hardly begin to describe how uncomfortable I am with this kind of thing. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should.

- If there are any lefties out there who would like to explain to me how making common cause with suicide bombers can be considered "progressive", I'd like to hear it.

- Speaking of both Maclean's and progressive, I couldn't help but chuckle at a letter to the editor from NDP MP Irene Mathyssen, who also serves as the party's Status of Women critic. She suggests,

It was odd that Aaron Wherry's piece on the state of women in politics ('Endangered Species Alert', National, April 30) should begin with the question "Where are all the powerful women?" but not interview any of the MPs in the New Democratic Party caucus of which 41 percent are women - the highest percentage of any party in the House of Commons.

Powerful? NDP? Same sentence?

You're kidding, right?

- "Documentarist" Michael Moore is pissing and moaning because the US government is investigating his recent trip to Cuba, whining that it's politically motivated. Putting the silliness of the law prohibiting travel to the brutal dictatorship socialist paradise aside, wasn't Moore's trip - gasp - politically motivated itself?