Orders for the sequel held a 3,619 percent increase in sales upon availability
That has to be one of the stupidest statements I've ever read. (and yes, I know that's what the article says)
Before it was available, sales would be zero. If sales weren't zero, then it was available.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
