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What’s up with America anyway? In the last few years, we’ve seen sponsored efforts to tear down all our heroes from Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, but so did everybody else of wealth back then in the dark ages) to Abe Lincoln (he must be gay because he slept in the same bed as his male friend, and because Gore Vidal said so), the Boy Scouts (shouldn’t be limited to boys. Huh? What?), the Catholic Church (molestation, gaiety, and manly nuns), cops (torturing suspects), forest rangers (setting fires), Mel Gibson (soused and scornful), even God (remove His name from our courts, our money, and our lips). Note how TV censors out the word God and leaves in the word “damn.”

And now, another blow — Tom Cruise (Crime? Scientologist)

Once upon a time in America, a person could freely express his or her religious convictions publicly if he or she chose to. Though that wasn’t particularly smart, since politics and religion can be such inflammatory topics, it was certainly a freedom.

Why is Tom Cruise any different?

Why is it perceived as a scandalous thing if he shows colossal joy by jumping up and down or doing anything else that he feels like doing. That goes for Tom Cruise and everybody else, even though there’s not too much going on in the world in the last five years to jump up and down about.

As of August 22nd, Paramount Studios has severed a 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise and his Cruise/Wagner Productions, his partner long-time good friend and manager, Paula Wagner.

The reason given? Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom which owns Paramount Studios and everything else in the world that’s not in your personal safe deposit box, said, “As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew the deal. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”

Recent conduct? Tom Cruise’s mind-boggling enthusiasm for the religion of his choice? This is a fireable offense? This is America?

And nasty tabloid and magazine covers intimate that there’s something wrong with Tom and Katie Holmes’ baby girl, Suri, just because they haven’t submitted photos of their baby as have other media-sucking celebrities. The press is practically saying the baby must be a throwback to Joseph (The Elephant Man) Merrick. This is America?

Tom’s getting it even worse than Michael Jackson, who covers the heads of his children with diaphanous cloth, thereby satisfying the public’s lust to peep and yet not see.

The increasingly militant gay community is angry with Tom Cruise because they say he’s gay and he says he’s not. He ought to know, don’t you think? Well, maybe not the entire gay community; Rosie O’Donnell has not withdrawn her public adoration of Tom. Yet.

What’s irritating is that Tom Cruise has brought more money into the coffers of Paramount Studios than any other star. I’m talking BILLIONS of U.S. Dollars, the dollars that still say God on them.

Americans should stop feeding negativity, nastiness, and nattering Nabobs with our attention.

If you enjoy Tom Cruise’s leaping all over the place doing movie stunts, what difference does it make if he leaps all over the place on a talk show or atop the Eiffel Tower?

Since I do not believe in contempt prior to investigation, I went to www.scientology.org to read a little about it in an effort to understand Tom Cruise’s overwhelming enthusiasm.

And I took their personality test, because I saw the South Park cartoon which wasn’t very nice but then, it’s South Park, that’s what they do.

I’ve seen photos of Mr. Redstone and I’ve seen photos of Mr. Cruise, and I think Tom Cruise was terminated because he’s so much better looking. Doesn’t matter how rich you are or how much media power you wield (Mr. Redstone owns TV networks, publishing houses, movie studios), you can still suffer from envy.

Unless you’re jealous of cartoonist Charles Schultz, that’d be called Peanuts envy.