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A study last year conducted by members of PRS for Music, a nonprofit royalty collection agency, found that of the 13 million songs for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single buyer and 80 percent of all revenue came from about 52,000 songs. That’s less than one percent of the songs.

[Arrington] gripes about iPhone — based on spotty and inconsistent coverage from AT&T, flashless camera, Apple’s AppStore misdeeds, and lack of access to other VoIP solutions — are based on a comparison with a hypothetical device managed by illusory and benevolent organizations: the land of make believe.

For weeks on end, the leadership of the Republican Party, together with key figures in Right-Wing radio and cable TV pushed the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama—and everyone who supported him—was a secret socialist.  In other words, every other socialist revolution in history was advanced by actual socialists who called themselves ‘socialists’ in public, but Barack Obama’s socialist revolution was a conspiracy, a plot by socialists who dared not say the word.  The only people using the word socialists, where the conspiracy theorist conservatives determined to cast light on the plot and stop it before it was too late.