Got to make this quick while everyone is out - BUT I JUST CAN'T RESIST IT ANY LONGER!!!! So, in the good old-fashioned tradition of the blogoshere rant I WILL VENT MY SPLEEN!!!!

(ew gross, something visually not nice just popped into my head then ..)

Anyway, here it is: Regarding Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' new kid, a fan shouted (while jumping up and down on an imaginary couch) "THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR AMERICA. IT IS THE NEW CAMELOT!"

Now, dear readers, am I the only one to find that repulsive? (And I am not even American! )Yet I saw that replayed again and again last night on the telly in the news. Do Americans revere Tom Cruise that much? I thought he was generally held to be a power-mad pip squeak cum nutter!

Scientology. I know he is their figure head (hence the delusions of grandeur I suppose). But where did the Camelot thing come in to it? I know in the original Camelot there was a great theme of SHAME to do with Guinevere's adultery. So is it the shame of the illegitimacy of this new baby? Don't think so, because that fact is swept aside (though true).

Maybe there is the view that a new age has been ushered in with the King and Queen (concubine?) of Scientology who will convert the masses to the home-brewed psychology and "For Tax Purposes Only 'Religion'" of L. Ron Hubbard? (And is it not funny that he was a SCIENCE FICTION writer?!)

Whatever the explanation, I feel desperately sorry for this poor little girl. I wonder what age she will be when first dragged off to an "engram" hunt in her brain? And they do do it to kids, and even have books about it. (Check for yourself!)

Is it a Great Day For America?
I think it is a sad commentary, myself.