King for a Day

Today, King Father hands his crown to Prince Son in Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom 101 years old. New king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, by most accounts, has the good fortune to follow in a popular monarch's footsteps and his father has the wonderful opportunity to see his son start out in a new direction — the monarch is no longer the dictator of government — and with popular support for well defined programs.

Imagine how glorious that father-child situation compared to the one between (for example) daughter Jett and father Hank Williams. Jett is a singer and the illegitimate dauther who never met her country music legend father. [Earlier: Tuned In] JW and HW Jr. (with whom she shares their father's estate) have culled CDs from unreleased material of their father. While it would be wonderful if it were more, but the result just seems to highlight that the main connection seems to be name and money.

Also living with name and money, and in this case the resulting infamy, is Omar bin Laden [Earlier: Legaciousness], who might be rich, but certainly isn't wanted in Spain (or probably anywhere else). Omar shares with father Osama wealth and well as being crazy, but it is unclear how far their connection goes beyond that.

Although sonO has called for daddyO to behave, he is unlikely to be given a chance by the present or history to reclaim a legacy and draw himself closer to a beloved father. In short, there is unlikely to be an opportunity such as was given to Peggy Wallace Kennedy to revision the historic, hateful legacy of her father (George "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" Wallace).

So all hail the old king and all hail new. It doesn't happen often enough that a father and child combine for a legacy bigger than the mere sum of the two parts.