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I gather from the comments of some of the fans of the program W Strone Sztuki ( Towards Art ) on Polish Radio 2, now discontinued, that the...

It is customary for women to make fun of men for being the silent types, by which they mean -- not talking through their problems like ...

Recently, by accident, the old wounds opened up. For a month I was miserable remembering how my mother tormented me and how cruelly my fath...

Polish racism is a fascinating phenomenon: it is entirely theoretical: it serves no purpose; it is entirely disinterested. Western-European...

I am unable to make up my mind how to feel about Princess Royal's new line of sexy lingerie. Is it more dumb -- trading the long term v...

Watching the unfolding Thai-Cambodian border conflict is like watching a surrealist comedy: Monty Python could not have come up with anythi...

A funny thing happened on the way to the dentist: arriving at the waiting room I was assailed by the sheer ugliness of everyone there: mis...

Łysiak tells us that Chinese and Japanese painting does not count because it's mere calligraphy . I wonder what he means by "does ...

The night before, still in Phnom Penh, in a vain effort to forget my misery, I took a novel to bed (I think it was Murdoch's The Sea The...

Cambodia depresses in many ways. Phnom Penh is the same excrement cavity it was 5 years ago, littered with garbage and reeking of urine, a...

Arguments presented here are -- er... shall we say -- disarmingly naive. Their caliber reminds one of the statistic that the higher the IQ...

John H. of Bronte Capital writes a good financial blog -- one of the best out there, when he has the time to write it, that is, which, to ou...

The food at my breakfast place is great; so is its bustling atmosphere. But what impresses me most is the speed with which the food is cook...

Beauty is a tool of totalitarian power. It controls minds; and is rare enough to be easily monopolized.

Chris is 60, thrice divorced, and, since a year ago, single for the first time in his life. I say "for the first time" because he...

"He... has beauty which... makes me ugly", says Iago about Cassio. Beauty -- not penis -- envy drives one of our literary canon...

Chris has worked all his life to build up a good gene-investment portfolio. He has six well-made children (healthy, good looking, intellige...

My aunt came and stayed for four days around new year's. I had invited her because the new year's is the anniversary of her son'...

Over the last eighteen months or so I have been working out a new approach to life. Not new in general terms, as there have been plenty of ...

. 1. My aunt – an elderly childless widow living in exile – feels lonely and phones me up to chat. "What are you doing today? And wha...