More on the subject of Li'l Tommy...sorry but it's hard to ignore this kind of stuff!
Personally I don't know why he or the Church of Scientolgy come in for so much flak. Surely this is just Li'l Tom taking some common-sense precautions in a Crazy, mixed up world.

Tom Cruise hires bodyguards to fend off evil galactic ruler

Film star Tom Cruise has hired extra bodyguards to protect him from an ancient galactic tyrant, Hollywood sources revealed yesterday.

Cruise is a member of the Church of Scientology, which teaches its followers that, millions of years ago, an evil interstellar ruler called Xenu brought trillions of people to earth and blew them up in volcanoes to solve galactic overcrowding. After this incident, known to scientologists as the “Wall of Fire”, Xenu himself was captured and taken to an undisclosed planet where scientologists believe he is still imprisoned today. The souls of the people he killed linger on and infect all people living now, except scientologists like Tom Cruise who know how to expel them, thus thwarting Xenu’s evil plans.

Tom’s fear of a Xenu attack is said to have arisen after hearing the song, ‘Message from Xenu’, by UK band The Truth Rockets, which describes how Xenu has escaped from his prison and is on his way to Hollywood in a DC8 to get Tom and his wife, who is also a scientologist. As the most prominent proponent of Scientology, Tom believes that an escaped Xenu would likely come after him personally, possibly using psychiatrists to drug and capture him.

“Ok, maybe it's just a song ... ” Tom is reported to have said, “... but you don't know what I do about psychiatry! If you did you'd know everything's possible. I can't afford to take chances."

The Truth Rockets' song, 'Message from Xenu' can be heard at http://www.thetruthrockets.net/downlds.htm

A passage from the recent Rolling Stone exposé on Scientology:
“Tom Cruise, who is near the top of Scientology's Bridge, at a level known as OT VII.
OTs are Scientology's elite -- enlightened beings who are said to have total "control" over themselves and their environment. OTs can allegedly move inanimate objects with their minds, leave their bodies at will and telepathically communicate with, and control the behavior of, both animals and human beings. At the highest levels, they are allegedly liberated from the physical universe, to the point where they can psychically control what Scientologists call MEST: Matter, Energy, Space and Time”.
And so it came to pass, that Li'l Tommy (who was great in ‘Collateral’ I thought) is now an Enlightened Being, can shape and re-shape the physical and non-physical world around him, and can commune with the Highest Power. The latter is an ability he apparently shares with Dr. Strange, Master Po, Tony Blair, Joan of Arc, and Dylan from The Magic Roundabout.
I knew a Scientologist once, Mad Dave from Burnley,(not his offical Scientology name).
As time went on, he became progressively more glassy-eyed and sort of...., pre-occupied somehow. Gave it all up in the end and went into a budget therapy-programme, courtesy of the NHS.
Last I heard he'd moved back in with his mum in Burnley. That was in about 1982, and I wouldn't mind betting that Mad ol' Dave is still there. Funny old game, that Scientology.

So the Sex Pistols have told the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame where they can shove their award.
Very Punk I'm sure we'd all agree. As a gesture, it's got John Lydon's trademark all over it...though I'd bet a 6-pack of Red Stripe that the other 3 were all for it, and are pissed-off that they're not going through with it.
Punk-Kidz and Mature-Punkz the world over should be asking themselves, just how seriously such a gesture of disdain can be taken, after you've appeared on 'I'm a Celebrity..Get Me Out of Here', as the UK Punk icon Lydon did last year?
Once that domain of Light-Entertainment has been entered, it seems to me, it's gonna be pretty difficult to return to any kind of crebility, if credibility is what you want and/or need.
Take a look at the Official Announcement, (posted on the band's website) written in appropriately 'Bad' handwriting, for those occasions when a word-processor just won't do. Real...Punk, like.

Ok, I know I'm a little late on this one, but I just got hold of a copy of Some Kind of Monster, the fly-on-the-wall account of Metallica's attempt to record an album whilst trying not to kill each other, attending rehab, etc. To ease their journey across this emotional minefield they have a band/personal-therapist onboard, at the princely sum of $40,000 per month. Bargain!.
I'm only just over halfway into it, but one of my favourite (blink-and-you'll-miss-it) parts is where the band are sitting in the studio, and are in the process of writing down their innermost feelings, as you do. The camera zooms in on a distracted-looking Lars Ulricht (who at this point in the movie looks like he's heading into nervous breakdown territory) as he commits his emotions to paper. The pic above is what we see. Lars clearly is not yet 'In the Zone'.
Some Kind of Monster along with This is Spinal Tap, is recommended viewing for anyone who has ever been in a band, big or small, or is even thinking about joining or forming one.

I should've been satisfied with one of the numerous templates on offer, but no, I had to go One Louder. Found another template option, began tweaking, and this is where the storm-clouds started gathering and I began hearing voices...voices that urged me to tweak, meddle, interfere, and generally fart about, endlessly.
Whatever the case, I've decided to stop for the time being, and just get the thing Out There...it still ain't looking right, but what the hell...uhhh...those voices again.
One thing though, before I press 'Publish Post'...maybe one of you Blognerds out there can tell me why the header displays perfectly well in Firefox, but has it's ends cut off in IE...?
Ok, I'm definitely gonna push the button now.....