There Are Some Things Money Can't Buy...

For everything else (including momentous diplomatic snubs), there's Amazon.com.

The total cost of the DVDs of 25 classic American movies President Obama gave to Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the customary gift exchange, if ordered through Amazon:  $320.48 (an average of $12.82 per flick).

That would've been enough to qualify for free Super Saver Shipping, assuming he checked "Group my items into as few shipments as possible."  Add a few more bucks if he sprung for gift wrapping.

(For those of you keeping score at home, we're spending 5,000 times as much on pig odor research in Iowa "to get the economy moving again.")

Serves Brown right, though, for giving our President a homemade gift of glorified driftwood that probably didn't cost a dime.

Limey cheapskate.