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1. So, inexplicably, we arrived home last night to find in our mail a detailed packet explaining the Federal Employee Program BlueCrossBlueShield health care benefits (neither of us are actually federal employees.) Both because at first I thought it _was_ our health care description, and because I was belatedly curious about the type of coverage Kerry touted, I looked through it. There was one interesting section, which is definitely not in our regular person BlueCrossBlueShield coverage: 20% discount on Viagra-type drugs, hair-growth drugs, and weight-loss drugs. Only those types of drugs, however - a very specific exception. I have to admit finding it a bit interesting to see our politicians' prescription priorities.

2. Ack! Much, much job letter writing to do. It never ends!

3. Why are baby showers traditionally only for women? A baby is, most of the time, created by two parents, and most often of different genders. Yet fathers frequently get largely excluded from the "celebrate the baby" party. I find the single-sex bridal shower/bachelor party much more defensible, even though I have lots of platonic close guy friends, because, well, in a certain sense that's a celebration in itself of sexuality and sexual roles. But that's not true for a baby shower. I'm not trying to attack people who have single-sex ones here, I'm just honestly curious to start a discussion and want to hear good defenses.