Dead Cant Rant

Lone Star Times is laughing at Tom Cruise’s latest insanity:

Tom Cruise is planning to eat his new baby’s placenta.
The Age: Tom’s placenta plans

Unfortunately, it may not be that simple. As I commented:

I talked to my wife about this issue this morning, and she pointed out a few interesting things. Apparently, Tom Cruise was “only joking” when he made those statements, and he also was being openly mocked during the interview for stating that a couple should communicate and keep sex within the marriage rather than have affairs and destroy the relationship. They also mocked him for discussing his abusive father who beat him and his mother, forcing his mother to leave his father, who in the article was only described as “tough on him”. Yet they describe Teri Hatcher as a hero for saying similar things about her uncle.

GQ used to be a staple magazine in our house, one of my wife’s favorites. But in the past few years they have become, like so many other “fashion and culture” magazines, condescending assholes. They ridicule religious conservatives constantly, they elevate wacko liberals to “hero” status, they rail against the “unjust war”, and they regularly publish articles such as “How to have an affair” and “How to have an office wife”.

As crazy as Tom Cruise may seem, I tend to take his side in this issue, if only because I myself have seen GQ and the others turn to complete shit.