The Coming Trifecta:

Japan has assured the public that Zokuowarimonogatari will air on tv, at which point it can be pirated online, subtitled, and delivered to the English speaking masses.  It aired in theaters already, so now it's just a matter of time.  This will be the final big event of 2018, which will help contribute to the narrative of a very top-heavy year in anime -- all the top hits got great new content, but there was very little else to celebrate.

Before we get Zokuowarimonogatari, though, we're getting two other treats.  On November 13th SAO Progressive volume 5 and Akame ga Kill! Zero volume 8 will be released translated into English.  It doesn't get any better than Reki Kawahara and Takahiro.  Once we get these two works of art, 2018 will be flush with good books and manga.  The coming trifecta of top class anime, books and manga is enough to brighten not only November but the whole year.

https://today.tamu.edu/2018/10/16/edible-cottonseed-research-at-texas-am-receives-usda-approval/

The annual global cottonseed production equals about 48.5 million tons.
Rathore said cottonseed, with about 23 percent protein content, can play an important role in human nutrition

Meanwhile, a cool advancement in cotton farming has just unlocked 48.5 million tons of food which consists of 23% protein for free -- since the cotton is already harvested the cottonseed was already with us whether we liked it or not.  That's an awful lot of high protein free food.  With the coming billions of extra African mouths, we're going to need it.

It's obvious that there simply isn't enough energy on the Republican side, which after all mainly consists of 60+ year olds, to resist their dispossession.  This was just the first of many elections we're going to lose for the rest of US history.  Nor is anyone fired up enough to do anything about it, even when we're cheated out of the senate seats we did win.  We're going to have to accept a majority non-white, democratic party run America.  With modern technology, it's possible to maintain a high standard of living even in terrible political circumstances, so maybe it doesn't even matter.  So long as your food is delivered to your door by self-driving cars or drones, does it even matter what goes on outside your home?  So long as the information from the internet flows freely into your computer screen, is there any reason to look outside?

I'm not going to rest my emotional equilibrium on vain hopes that anything will change.  Democrats have won, we're going to have open borders sooner or later, and all we can do is hope they'll leave us alone in our old age to die quietly.  I've already achieved most of my life objectives anyway.  If the kids want to live in a liberal utopia let them have one.