Tom Cruise

I won’t write much about Hollywood. What angers me enough yell at the television rarely has anything to do with how Britney is treating her baby. Seriously people, there are children in this country who have no health care, are starving, and if they are lucky enough to make it to school age, may go to schools that are falling apart, with substandard books, teachers and which will most likely close leaving them unable to go to school at all thanks to Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act. So I could give two of nothing about Britney’s baby.

Tom Cruise on the other hand intrigued me. His movie M:I:III opens today. Recently he’s been under attack for a lot of the “crazy” statements he’s made. His attack on Brooke Shields and his baby birthing rules were much in the news. And as crazy and the things Tom said were, he only makes movies not laws. Bill Frist on the other hand supports sex education (abstinence) that says you can get AIDS from tears and sweat. Rick Santorum compared Homosexuality to beastiality and pedophilia. These are the people who make the laws we must live by. Why did I see more airplay about Tom claiming he knew psychiatry was BS, than Frist claiming he knew Teri wasn’t in a vegetative state…because he watched video of her. Tom Cruise may convert some people to scientology, maybe not, but I consider him harmless compared to senators and congressmen with irrational beliefs. It isn’t Tom Cruise who’s going to limit women’s access to birth control, or ban gay marriage or lead us into a war with questionable intelligence against a country that didn’t attack us. It’s going to be those other people I mentioned. So let Tom talk crazy and if he runs for office vote against him. And while you’re at it see if you can vote out of office the people who still believe that the WMDs exist.

-j.r.