Monday Morning Karma Remember Richard Mellon Scaife, the conservative billionaire who's spent hundreds of millions of dollars bankrolling moralistic conservative thinktanks and newspapers? The one who couldn't spent enough money trying to prove that Bill Clinton was an adulterer?

Well, turns out he's...an adulterer!

And not only that, but his choice of consort is, well, a former consort. Or, as the Washington Post puts it, Social Register material she is not.

The two usually met each other twice a week, for months, at the motel, says an employee of the motel. Scaife would show up in a chauffeured car, dressed in a suit, wearing cuff links, always bearing flowers. Vasco would be waiting in same room every time, Room 5 on the ground floor, facing the parking lot, said the employee. Mr. Dick, as he was known at the motel, would stay for two hours or so, then get back in the car, which had been waiting, and leave.

Now Scaife's wife, Ritchie, is suing for divorce. And—ooops—they don't have a pre-nup. Even before the case has been ruled on, she's getting $725,000 a month from her husband by court order.

All of this, by the way, comes from documents which were supposed to be sealed, but a court clerk mistakenly posted to a public section of the court's website. Whoops!

What will happen to the Heritage Foundation, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and others if Scaife loses half his money?  ¶ 7:23 AM