An Upsetting Song:

'An Upsetting Emotion' is titled correctly, when you listen to it all you ever feel is upset.  Upset that such a bad song is somehow still in your great music hall of fame.  There's only a sliver of the song that's worth listening to, the rest is dreck, and it's quite long!  On the 85th playthrough I gave up on this monstrosity by Motoi Sakuraba and cut it.  He still has 868 songs to his name so he hardly needed this one.

My music hall of fame is a more rounded number, 5515.  My median playthrough count is 91, with 2057 songs left to go.  If I could listen to music nonstop I could finish this project in 45 days.  I'm still betting it will take until next year though.

I've relentlessly purged '100 Waifus' of the word 'just' so much that it's no longer the most commonly used word in the book, that position now belongs to 'even.'  I probably shouldn't be using 'even' so much, but it's a huge relief either way.  'Just' grates in the ears every time I come across it, but 'even' still sounds inoffensive to me, so it can't be too prolific.  Now that I've reached chapter 32 the number of times 'just' is used should fall to within manageable numbers, it was mainly a problem with the early chapters to begin with.  Now I can actually relax and read large portions of the book without having to stop and edit all the time, which should make the 29th readthrough a bit more enjoyable.

Still, with all the edits I had to do, readthrough 29 wasn't as fun as I had hoped it would be.  Well, there's always readthrough 30.

The new Tonikaku Kawaii ova is out.  It's okay, like the regular series.  A little more ecchi, which is to be expected from ova's.

The Haganai manga english translation has caught up with the Haganai light novel english translation -- which is to say they're both equally unfinished now.  Though there's no hope on the light novel front, the manga's remaining two volumes are still scheduled for release in the near future, so at least we'll get to see the manga ending.  The only problem is I hear the manga ending is different from the light novel ending, but at this point I'll settle for anything.  Better than no ending at all.

Afghanistan saddens me.  The same Taliban who hosted Bin Laden and thus killed 3,000 Americans and cost our economy trillions of dollars are back in power, better off than ever before.  In fact more numerous and better equipped and in greater control of more territory than when we started 20 years ago.  That's a miserable result for our military and our taxpayers.  We paid thousands of lives and trillions of dollars for nothing.  But Biden is right that we were never going to win this war, short of killing every single Afghan in Afghanistan there was no victory condition, so we may as well cut our losses.  We had to cut and run sooner or later so it may as well have been now.  Could it have been effectuated slightly more cleanly?  Sure, but then again, at least now it's over.  Wait for the US military to do it 'cleanly' and they'd probably figure out some way to never leave at all.

Unlike most Republicans trying to score points on Biden simply because he's a democrat, I tip my hat to him for getting this unwelcome task over with.  It's something Trump said he would do over and over but never managed.  Remember that state of the union speech?  "Great nations don't fight forever wars."  I liked that speech.  And I like it when Biden follows the speech's advice.

Our domestic situation is so terrible, with half the country immiserated, millions of illegals pouring across the border, almost 1,000 a day dying of Covid-19 again even though the vaccine was supposed to have stopped it, inflation back to the 1970's, crime surging, overdoses at an all time high. . .I don't have any time to spare to care about useless, pointless, endless foreign wars.  We need to worry about America right now, we don't have any leeway to fix Afghanistan, pretty much the worst place on Earth.