Bad Dads We Love, Scientology Edition

6a00d83451c36069e200e54f9ddc438833-640wiIf Dadwagon were to have a blog motto (and despite all of Nathan’s efforts to create one, we still don’t), if might be this: famous dads are bad dads.

In that light, I give you this photo of Katie Holmes and the android daughter she spawned via the miracle of steroids (for Tom Cruise), alien intelligence, and a single rapid, eyes-squeezed-shut, please-can-we-get-this-over-with fuck (we presume).

What, you say, is there in this picture of Katie and the Cruise youth that would imply bad fatherdom? Nothing! Or, actually, nowhere, as in, why isn’t Tom with his family in the midst of The Great Blizzard of 2010?

Clearly a bad dad..that we sort of love…although he does the same thing in each movie…and he seems kinda crazy.

Published by Theodore

Theodore Ross is an editor of Harper’s Magazine. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Saveur, Tin House, the Mississippi Review, and (of course), the Vietnam News. He grew up in New York City by way of Gulfport, MS, and as a teen played the evil Nazi, Toht, in Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. He lives with his son, J.P. in Brooklyn, and is currently working on a book about Crypto-Jews.

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