Dubai, mon amour. Well, it's not exactly my love. But it sure is other people's. Dubai comes up anywhere highly paid P.R. people have been. There's "A Special Supplement to The New York Times Magazine" in Sunday's edition. Twenty pages. Apropos this publication, we are assured, that "it did not involve the reporting or editing staff of The New York Times." And I am sure it did not. It's too simply tacky for the Times. It's a sleeker piece of work than we used to see as full-page ads from North Korea in the Times. You looked at those pages and you grasped immediately what kind of state Kim Jung Il ruled. The only really terrible thing that these Dubai pages hide is that its prosperity is built on low-paid foreign laborers, who are increasingly disgruntled and envious. And it is going to get more and more terrible as time goes on. When that happens, the foreign investment that this advertising section is trying to attract will begin leaving. Yes, they will have put money into the country. But that doesn't keep foreigners there when turmoil is on the streets. So what else is there in Dubai besides a friendly investing environment assured by the government? Say, something like culture. Maybe music or dance or theater, of the traditional kind, let's say. I don't know. But I guess not. On the other hand, there is "The Ultimate Leisure and Tourism Attraction." It is called "Dubailand." Remind you of anything? Disneyland or Disneyworld do not have the Snow Dome. How's that for indigenous material? The first line in this supplement gives it all away: "A mix of Singapore and Las Vegas." This does a big injustice to Singapore... and even to Las Vegas. Singapore actually has a burgeoning scientific culture. And Las Vegas does not depend on labor from far-away Pakistan and Malaysia. Still, I can't wait to see the "awe-inspiring real estate projects." Has anyone told Donald Trump?