Images from Haiti dominate. The devastation gets beamed to hand-helds and flat screens, irrationally distancing us from their current tragedy as well as the decades of remote despair.  At the same time, stranger pictures from a week of contradictions appear and though closer to home, the disassociation feels sharper.  First, the Chilcot  inquiry (click here) with its superhuman quantities of absurd pride and abject ambiguity is seen running in tandem with oath swearing images from the FCIC hearings (click here )

There, several titans from the parallel universe were united, conceding to failures and metaphorical "choking".  They had survived after the ultimate, public Heimlich maneuver, and emerged unfettered. And perhaps stranger still, in the wake of Dubai's near meltdown, the Burj Khalifa (click here)  officially opened.  It is purely coincidental that this modern Tower of Babel now scrapes the sky at the same time that Sarah Palin joins Fox News.  (Click here)to shoot from the hip and tell it like it is.

And it's all about ethical practices and sustainability, right? The plan of the moment is to restore Haiti. But to what? Last week, Mother Nature cleared an unlucky, forgotten place and in so doing, handed the world a blank canvas and a watch. It is curious that so many of the supposedly serious painters from  across the globe have yet to arrive
-- Deborah Gale