Wednesday, 20 March 2002

Rainbow

This Wired article fascinates me somehow. You know sometimes when everything seems just very dull, days like today where you have to turn on the lights long before the sun actually sets because the sun is hidden behind a thick impenetrable blanket of clouds. So on days like today I think it would be nice to see a rainbow when I looked at a newspaper. I need light. I’m in a much better mood when the sun is shining brightly. But if I can’t have light, bright colors might be nice from time to time….

In my Wired newsletter I also found this:

Progressive Prostitution
“In Germany, at least, the world’s oldest profession is starting to approach 20th-century working conditions, thanks to legislation. Felicitas Weigmann, who owns posh Berlin brothel Cafe Pssst!, has offered her staff employment contracts with a 40-hour working week and a profit-sharing plan of 40 euros per client. Weigmann drew up the contracts after the German parliament passed an historic law last year giving prostitutes new employment rights including social security, health insurance, pension and the right to legally pursue customers who don’t pay. While prostitution had previously been legal and earnings liable to tax, it had been officially declared “immoral”. “

I doubt that this would’ve happened under the old conservative government. Nor would they have made same-sex marriages legal and equal to “conventional” marriages. (I could be wrong here but I doubt that it would’ve happened). I hope people see this in the upcoming election and don’t vote conservative again.

  Posted by Edda at 11:47 CET