I bought gifts for people. They liked them. I'm sure you can think of some children in your life who would appreciate a notion of caring from the Smithsonian.

> The reason why I'm proud to be an american is because we fund stuff like this an national parks and libraries and the best postal service in the world.

That's hilarious. All those things you mention have suffered budget shortfalls and funding cuts, continuously, over the past couple decades. There's a certain political party that would rather defund and privatize everything, funneling money to their cronies in corporate America. So we get ads and other garbage.