It's Your Legacy, Idiot
The Daily Mail offers an extraordinary lede to its roundup of current events in the life of Formula One Racing boss Max Mosley. Geoffrey Levy's article begins by explaining that the favored son of Nazi era-relic Oswald Mosley, would be now simply a standup comics punchline, merely a "foolish and rather depraved man" — he is on tape performing some Nazi-costumed S and a bit of M with prostitutes — if it weren't for his father's legacy.
Quite a legacy he now leaves for sons Alexander, 37, and Patrick, 35, and perhaps grandchildren as well.
Wouldn't the world be richer, but the news less entertaining if there was a law — or commonsense just ruled — and every dad had to ask a simple question and then defend his answer before doing anything: what will it mean for my kids?
Fathers need to be fathers. Nicely phrased by U.S. Prez candidate Barack Obama addressing a slightly different problem than Mosley's (and quoted by the Boston Herald's Joe Fitzgerald in a piece on "the daddy issue"): “We have too many children in poverty in this country and don’t tell me it doesn’t have a little to do with the fact that we got too many daddies not acting like daddies. Don’t think that fatherhood ends at conception. "
Daddies acting like daddies. You would think it would already be an evolutionary and genetic mandate, something like breathing in order for the species to survive.
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