I hereby support America's National Institute on Media and the Family...

Jack Thompson is blasted by pro-family group (article is linked by Penny Arcade, and will soon be linked by Slashdot, so load times may vary)

The key quote from the article:

"(Jack Thompson's) commentary has included extreme hyperbole and (his) tactics have included personally attacking individuals for whom I have a great deal of respect... Some of the people that you have publicly criticised are not only people of integrity, but are people who have worked to improve the lives of children."

Yowza.

America's National Institute on Media and the Family has a website, of course, at http://www.mediafamily.org/, which does movie and game reviews, taking into account the quality of the game/film, as well as the age appropriateness of it. Games like Unreal Championship can get a lot of props for the qualiity of the game, but still get low scores for the adult content, while games like Pirates get much better scores. The games are also regarded as good or bad for age ranges. Its a pretty good site for parents who want to know more than what's in the ESRB content discriptions.

Props on them for getting away from the walking, talking bad press machine.