I'VE GOT FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES

Richard Perle turns on Conrad Black, business partner and defendant. Perle's discredited friends this year include Black (whose Chicago Sun-Times-owning Hollinger may make the Moonies look like a reputable publisher at this point) and Ahmad Chalabi, the eyewitness who helped Bush put on a war under false pretenses. My hope is that a few of Perle's neocon friends will get sucked into this vortex of scandal and purge Washington from their nutty ideas about security. (Plus, these Conrad Black scandals are irresistable corporate soap opera.)