Clueless Bastards, Rootless Wanderer

In It’s Good to Be a Man, I introduced the concept of the clueless bastard. I know it sounds like a cuss word, but it’s not. I was using bastard in the older, technical sense, an illegitimate child. Such a child bears no father’s name and receives none of his discipline. He grows up without the wisdom and patterns that should have been passed from fathe…