Smithsonian--‘Nations Attic'--Leaking Badly
Not to worry—the Congress will not let this happen. Those who stand up every day in the halls of the House and Senate, shaking a righteous finger in the defense of our most precious freedoms, will ride like the cavalry to the rescue. It is, after all, a miniscule number, an amount required to fund less than a week of war.
An article in (what else?) the Washington Post, Jim Grimaldi outlines the decline and fall of yet another American institution.
Free speech? No, the corporate and media giants have already co-opted that one.
Freedom of the press and an independent media? Sorry, that was bought while we were busy at the mall, by an Australian billionaire.
Then, it’s gotta be our right to be left the hell alone in our own homes. Uh, uh. That most cherished of our rights was the first casualty of the War on Drugs.
The institution of which I speak is not philosophical, but actual bricks and mortar—the Smithsonian, “an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administ…