A sci-fi author gets a suspended sentence for obstructing a border guard, though he says he was just asking why they were going through his stuff . . . And a less successful writer gets over four years for trying to publicize his book on terrorism by sending fake anthrax spores to anyone he could think of.
Can we blame this on mental trauma caused by too many rejection slips? I know there are lots of things I'd like to blame on that.
