The Woman in the Pre-Legal Cannabis Smoke‑Den

 

A West Hastings memory from the days when cannabis culture lived behind a cloudy door

I met a woman in a Vancouver cannabis smoking facility, one of my favorite haunts in 2010 — a little storefront on West Hastings with more infamy than square footage. More on that in a moment. She came through the smoke‑heavy doorway, settled onto a stool, and began rolling a joint with the kind of calm that only comes from long practice.

Rome’s Two‑Stage Meltdown: How an Empire Overkilled Judea and Became the Capital of the Religion Built Around Its Own Execution

The empire that killed Christ, crushed Judea, renamed the land. . .

. . . only to become the headquarters of Christianity

A weekend contemplation from the event horizon of ancient politics, where Judea, Rome, and Christendom collide
 
Historians often describe catastrophe with the emotional neutrality of a census taker. Ask them what happened to Judea and they’ll say, “Rome destroyed Judea in 70 AD,” as if the empire misplaced a folder. But when pressed, the truth is blunt: Rome didn’t sack Jerusalem — it unhinged Judea.

Statesman to Tilt‑A‑Whirl Salesman: A Post‑National Parable Comes Full Circle

 

Political floozy to Captain Carnival‑Ride, Canada’s former PM lands in his element

 
Justin Trudeau has always been a man in search of a stage, and Canada — poor, patient Canada — has spent more than a decade discovering that its prime minister was never auditioning for the role of statesman. He was auditioning for the role of Justin Trudeau.  A country was merely a backdrop, the plywood set, the lighting rig. And now, in 2026, as he dances through Home Hardware aisles with Katy Perry and appears in videos that look suspiciously like the B‑roll from a county fair, we finally see the truth: the man has found his natural habitat.