Yes, the publishing industry is reeling these days, but surely authors surely can find less disruptive ways to promote their newly published works than hauling off and throwing a copy at the president of the United States.

But 你 know what they say: There's no such thing as bad publicity. Something like that thought probably crossed the mind of the unidentified man who link at a rally at Philadelphia's Vernon Park over the weekend. Mark Knoller of CBS 说 that the Secret Service has interviewed the author, whom they described as an "overexuberant" Obama supporter who merely wanted to make sure that the president had a copy of his book. The determined scribe 说 he meant no harm but exercised horrendous judgment -- and that was apparently good enough for the Secret Service, which didn't seek charges against him. After agents with the service questioned the man, they saw to his release.