California Videogame Ban Reaches Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court began to consider the constitutionality of a California law that would ban retailers from selling violent videogame titles to minors. The law, first proposed in 2005, has already been ruled unconstitution…

Why Jon Stewart Matters More Than Keith Olbermann

At least in part due to comments made by Jon Stewart at this weekend’s Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann announced he was suspending his show’s well-known “Worst Person in the World” segment indefi…

The (Paltry) Economics of Being a Novelist

Veteran novelist Catherine Ryan Hyde (Pay It Forward and 15 other books) describes the monetary underpinnings of the novelist’s business. Did you know authors generally get just two royalty checks a year? That is, if there are …