The bad news for David Smith? US News reports that “Smith, a top Interior Department official” (yawn) has stepped down after a Dances-with-Wolves-overlong fooferaw involving Smith’s 2004 shooting of a buffalo on “a billionaire friend’s ranch.” Read all about it (and much, much more) here. MORE »

The ultimate casualty of the collapse of the Soviet Union has a new gig. Hilarity ensues: MORE »