That sound you hear? Dominoes beginning to fall. Controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff today pleaded guilty to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion in a deal with the federal government. And that deal includes Abramoff leading investigators on a magical mystery tour of his lobbying of Congress for all manner of evil.

We’d be shocked — shocked — if the Abramoff deal doesn’t led to a few congressional convictions, resignations or at least indictments. And while Abramoff has had Democratic friends over the years, this is primarily, as our own U.S. Sen. Harry Reid has said, a Republican scandal.

Abramoff’s guilty plea comes not only in Washington, where he was being investigated for how he wielded immense power with lawmakers, but also in Florida, where his bid to take over the SunCruz casino boat line had come under scrutiny.

The names of people connected to Abramoff — U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, former Christian Coalition Executive Director Ralph Reed, Americans for Tax Reform chief Grover Norquist, ex-White House procurement officer David Safavian, etc. is long and very distinguished. And we’re betting there are some extremely nervous people in Washington, and elsewhere, right now.

Fall, dominoes, fall!

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What’s this? Something interesting on the Review-Journal’s Living section cover? That’s so … so … incongruent.

But feature reporter Corey Levitan’s star turn as a Stratosphere hotel-casino window washer actually made us at Various Things & Stuff read all the way to the end, something we can rarely do when it comes to Living material.

If Levitan keeps this up, a volcanic island of relevancy may yet arise from the sorry sea of mediocrity that is Living. But that’s good for R-J readers, who really deserve a break.