In two columns last week, longtime Washington Post columnist Philip Kennicott uncorked galaxy-brain takes touting the need for “independent scholarship” at the Smithsonian “focus[ing] on key issues, like climate change” and “racial...division” in light of Secretary Lonnie Bunch’s impending retirement and then trumpeting Osama bin Laden as having won out following the September 11, 2001 terror…

"A Hoodie. A Symbol. A Museum Piece? What will become of Trayvon Martin's sweatshirt, the latest piece of trial evidence to capture the public's fascination?" That's how the editors of the Washington Post-owned free tabloid Express grabbed the eyeballs of Washington Metrorail riders this morning. Manuel Roig-Franzia's cover story on page 12 -- "Iconic Evidence Has Unclear Fate: Supporters…