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Math is HARD

Daniel Abraham observes: Ms. L suggests that Ms. M is insufficiently feminist because she is encouraging middle school girls to learn math by pointing out that being smart is not inconsistent with shopping and fashion and the consumerism that all us good lefties decry as bad and which middle school girls seem to think is

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Off to the Races

Despite th ankle silliness, my sugar’s been pretty good the last couple of weeks. A sample from the last few days: 11611882 10672108 9376102 8056109 11261134 107102 No idea how I’m doing this. A surprising lack of stress, perhaps. I mean: knowing you have health insurance is a beautiful thing. Also, staying away from those

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Let Your Protagonist Be Ugly

Mary Sue is a term originating in fan fiction, for a phenomenon that has probably existed since a Cro-Magnon teenager scratched a stick figure single-handedly slaying mammoths on a cave wall. The above is a short list of stuff you can do with your characters to avoid the Mary Sue syndrome: that is, the creation

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