Raithe

It's pretty standard imperial fare throughout history regardless of political type. Rome, China (both Imperial and Communist), Mongol, Russia, Persia, Spain, etc.

Hey, I'm English. My understanding is fixed on tea not coffee. Although mostly only my American friends who are women really talk about pumpkin spice and their love of it. The guys I know mostly reference it with memes over September - November.

Or to put it another way....

True enough. I imagine it can depend on the type of spirituality? Is spirituality meant to be the opposite of raging cynicism? I mostly thought it made an interesting change from all the "red flag" alerts that float around.

Its' somewhat painful at the moment. It's been so long since I logged into the owlcat site I've forgotten the password to it. And of course, with their overloaded system it's not sending the reset password link email. Ah well. Guess I'll have to wait for the masses to thin before I get my digital download access.

Although for the disturbing aspect of things at the moment... Glenn Beck is funding private planes into Afghanistan for rescue flights. Not Zuckerberg, not Bezos, not Musk.. but conspiracy theorist, right-wing, fox associated Glenn Beck. Although sure, the focus of the Nazarene Fund he's has his listeners donate to is focused on rescue of Christians rather than refugees in general.

Well....