An e-mail chain was circulating among Husband’s family this week, with every brother and sister on the cc list. (The family has come rather late to technology: “Awww,” Husband said, “our first family thread!”)

“Your mother wants to get the new Bill O’Reilly book A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity,” a brother-in-law wrote. “He is at a book signing in Ridgewood, NJ today.”

I’m not sure why we were on the thread, because we are hours away from New Jersey. Maybe they were just keeping us in the loop because she purchased her last Bill O’Reilly book in Port City.

This touched off a discussion about who should get the book. You live closer! But you work closer! But I’ll have to hang around five hours after work!

Finally one sister wrote to the other, “You voted for McCain— you get it.”

Sounds like unassailable logic to me.

ETA: Bill O’Reilly on Jon Stewart: