Unsolicited Advice

I've had a lot of sewing to do lately. Sewing requires my hands and my eyeballs, preventing me from reading actual books. BPL cards come with a complimentary Overdrive account, so I raided their mp3 audiobook catalog. Their recommendations algorithm is either a bit squiffy or has an interesting sense of humor, I thought, as it showed me Lena Dunham's autobio (cannot stand  her), a load of inspirational "spiritual" titles, and a bunch of stuff by Bill O'Reilly. I'm still not touching his political stuff, because I don't want to remember half a second after I throw the book at the wall that I was actually reading that on my Kindle, but he's also written a bunch of historical things that didn't look terrifyingly Republican. And you know what? They're really fun. Well, if you think reading about assassinations is fun. He does talk a lot about murder. I'm undecided on whether I should be worried about that. The point is, O'Reilly'

Funny thing about going and feeding someone's entire oevre into your head. You run across a lot of stuff that you wouldn't have touched in a million years otherwise. I am definitely not a fan of Bill O'Reilly, and I hesitate to say that I like him, but I'm reasonably sure I could make it through a dinner party without punching him in the face. The angry shouty grandpa bit on The O'Reilly Factor  is at least partly a put-on. Made me jump the first time I saw it, in fact, because my first exposure to him was on The Daily Show , where he is very dry and laid-back to the point where he is one of the few conservative guests comfortable enough to pull sight gags on the host.  O'Reilly, so far as I can tell, is a fiscal conservative and hard-right on most military things, but also not an idiot and drifts remarkably centrist on some social issues. He sat down and looked into the legal arguments for and against same-sex marriage at one point, and came to the co