Love me to the end of the dance

Leonard Cohen’s evocative lyrics and haunting melody are brilliant. What do they mean? Is it simply that life is short, let us go out with a bang? Is it that, if you’re going to treat me as a specimen and take my life away from me, then let me savor the love of my life until my final, burning passion?

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Obama is right

President Obama is correct that Republicans should increase the debt ceiling. Quiner’s Diner’s readers, I’m sure, are stunned to read those words in light of the prodigious pummeling this humble blogger has dished on the president. Many of you may be sputtering that Barack Obama is a shameless hypocrite on this subject. And, of course, you would be correct …

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No one talks about sterilization

I heard a small town doctor talk last night. He is a general practitioner. In small towns, doctors do a lot, everything from delivering babies to repairing hernias to removing gall bladders. I asked him how much surgical sterilization for women costs. Take a guess. The president tells us insurance companies must provide if for “free” …

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A class act

Class. Honor. Dignity. Our celebrities and “heroes” have abandoned these virtues. One of the great baseball players of the past generation was Pete Rose, aka “Charlie Hustle.” Mr. Rose didn’t have the physical gifts of many of his contemporaries. He compensated by working harder and out-hustling the other guy …

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“We are what we watch”

This appeared in the morning’s newspaper: “Texas Chainsaw 3D” was the No. 1 box office movie last week. Now millions in the U.S. get their violence, blood, gore and killings in 3-D. “Gun control” in the U.S.? No guns? Massacre people with a chainsaw and enjoy it … millions of movie goers did! We are what we watch.” What do you think, are we “what we watch?”

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The dying art of conversation

It strikes me that the coffee shop is one of the few places I ever see people talking to each other, and even more, actually listening to each other …

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