While it seems as though it has become law that nearly every blog and news outlet on earth most report on a story of some new building in Dubai, or some gigantic collection of art in Qatar, and so on and so forth, Times writer John Arlidge has stopped to ask if all this wealth and spending will equal good taste in the end and what exactly some of these multi-billionaire oil tycoons are doing to try avoid the curse of looking too "new money." And it doesn't just stop there, as the question arises of what do you do once you're done building these cities lined with gold, how to lure Westerners in to come experience it all while they're guarded with tense feelings about anything even remotely related to the Middle East. The piece asks a lot more questions than it answers, but it provides for a nice "Let's step back and look at all of this" sort of feeling, which seems like just the remedy for yet another post about a potentially-fake-PhD and his insane spinning building.