Every year, Sen. Tom Coburn (R.-Okla.) sets out to uncover how our tax dollars get wasted every year by the government. His Wastebook 2013 is now available; brace yourself. Here are some “highlights:”

$400 million…to do nothing. During the government shutdown, non-essential government employees were paid $4000 daily for doing nothing.The Army National Guard spent $10 million on an advertising campaign tied into the Superman: Man of Steel movie.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has been spending $1 million a year to “explore the fascinating, often contradictory origins and influences of popular romance as told in novels, ics, advice books, songs, and internet fan fiction, taking a global perspective—while looking back across time as far as the ancient Greeks.” What does that mean? It’s costing you a million bucks a year so some government employees can read romance books.

$50 million for Google searches. Well, not Google searches per se, but rather the National Technical Information Service.” What do they do? They Google stuff for government employees.The National Institute of Health found it necessary to spend over $300 thousand to see if men were happier if their wives calmed down quickly after an argument. Apparently no one there is married.The State Department spent $630 thousand to buy Facebook “likes.”The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (the folks who print our money) ruined a bunch of $100 bills. To the tune of $4 million.

If you can stomach it, you can read the entire Wastebook here.