In case you missed this amusing little nugget, the other day, a settlement offer in a lawsuit over who owns the beige suit worn by O.J. Simpson on the day the verdict was read in his criminal included the option of donating the thing to the Smithsonian Institution. Trouble is, nobody asked the Smithsonian whether they wanted the damn thing in the first place. And as it turns out, they don’t. At all.The Smithsonian’s National…

DCist sees jury duty as an excuse to get the hell out of the office, and maybe, just maybe, actually get to sit in judgment on an O.J. Simpson-like courtroom drama (well, spare that whole murder and being sequestered forever thing). Most District residents see otherwise, apparently. Yesterday the Examiner reported on a new study which found that fewer than 1 in 5 D.C. residents selected for jury duty actually bother to show up, and…