more about the murders in Ipswich

i'm going to link a second news source in one day.

this is an interesting opinion piece from the independent about how laws in the uk make it easier for the bad people to prey on women working in the sex industry. to me a lot of it seems pretty common sense. even though i don't think prostitution is the best of all career choices (i feel the same way about the dental hygiene industry so don't get on me for ragging on women who make unpopular choices, i judge the popular choices too!) i still wish it could be made safer so that the women who do choose it have some recourse against violent clients.

from salon.com (because i want to be more like alannah!)

i've been wondering about this myself

i had a big long entry about this but for some reason it didn't take. maybe blogger isn't ready for either option!

now i don't have time to rewrite it all, but suffice to say, i find this to be a really interesting question, and like the author of the article i also find it troubling that black women are always left out of the equation.

there was also some mention of my general dislike of team clinton and then concern that this is caused by some latent sexism inside me that i haven't addressed yet (the horror!) and then a what if about the results if they ran together on a combined ticket.

there were a few more witty asides in parentheses as well, i do like a good bracket.

so, yeha, what do you think about it? i want to know.