More Shake Ups at the Smithsonian

We’ve been following the Lawrence Small–Smithsonian scandal as much as we can, not just because it’s interesting, but because it seems just completely otherworldly, all this Enron-esque spending and general fibbing. For this sort of thing to come out about a place nearly every American child is taught to held up to such reverence as the greatest collections of museums in the world, well, it kinda feels like finding out that your favorite teacher in third grade was just discovered as the most wanted gun runner in the western hemisphere.