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…

If you’re concerned about average D.C. street crime (and who isn’t), you really need to be reading Borderstan on a regular basis. The blog has been doing a consistently great job of warning residents about the everyday muggings and burglaries that mostly go unreported by larger media outlets, and this week has been no exception. Note this report of a 9 a.m. mugging bank robbery on K Street: D.C. police were searching for a suit-wearing,…