one of those grab-the-nearest book memes

my source for this one was actually a fanfic challenge, in which one is meant to take the resulting line and base a fanfic on it. i added the sixth sentence as well because, well, it should be obvious.

grab the nearest book and turn to page 123. post the fifth sentence, even if you have to turn a page to do it.

from Rex Stout's "The Doorbell Rang":

"I have decided," he said, "That every man alive today is half idiot and half hero. Only heroes could survive in the maelstrom, and only idiots would want to."

madbodger take note

via rattleback, a link to how not to maintain a liquid nitrogen tank. you're going to love this one.

via eridan

The circumstances under which I would, might, have, or might have chosen to have an abortion are nobody's business but mine and those I choose to tell. They are not the business of any government. I do not accept the proposition that either the state or my sexual partner(s) should have any say over when and if I choose to bear a child. I do not accept any sovereignty over my body and my reproductive organs but my own. If faced with the situation, I will do everything feasible to help other women and girls I know exercise their rights to safely terminate a pregnancy if they so choose. When a state treats women and girls as chattel, it is they that commit a crime.

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If you agree, please place the preceding paragraph in your journal. Then use the following link to send a message to South Dakota's governor: Planned Parenthood's take action page. And thanks.

http://www.saveroe.com/action/index.php

( what i wrote. )

when it rains, it pours

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