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Mar
25
On Marriage and Family
March 25, 2004 | Leave a Comment
You learn something new every day.
I would never have guessed how sacred a tradition marriage was to the Bahamian psyche until this past week or so, when the institution discovered more apologists than it can truly handle. I wouldn’t talk about the family. All of a sudden we Bahamians are champions of marriage [...]
Mar
18
On Patronage
March 18, 2004 | Leave a Comment
In the opening of the film The Godfather, Don Vito Corleone is visited by Johnny Fantone, a young singer who is trying to make a name for himself in Hollywood. Don Corleone has already helped Johnny to get where he is in Las Vegas, having made his band leader the offer he couldn’t refuse. [...]
Mar
11
On Art and Truth
March 11, 2004 | Leave a Comment
Ours is a society of liars.
Now before you throw down the paper in disgust and pick up the phone to call your local hit man for me, stop a minute. I’m not talking about the everyday kind of lie, the “my-dog-ate-my-homework” or “no-you-gave-me-a-twenty-not-a-fifty” kind of lie. I’m talking about something far more fundamental [...]
Mar
1
On the Passing of Good Men
March 1, 2004 | 1 Comment
The death of Brent Malone this week not only shocked me, but shook me. He was too young, for one thing. And for another, he was too special.
Those feelings are absurd, of course, and extremely personal. Death is the one thing that does not discriminate. No one is too [...]