TJDempsey

Just a quick post, more to jot down a thought that rapidly entered my head and now threatens to depart as swiftly as it arrived. Bafflingly controversial climate economist Bjorn Lomborg - who made waves here in WA for his proposed and later scrapped climate consensus centre at the University of Western Australia - has … Continue reading A Note on Subscriptions. | Temporal Tim

I was just reading an article on the Guardian about criticism over America's aid for the disaster response efforts in Puerto Rico, and I made a somewhat rookie error in continuing after the end of the article to scroll towards the comments. Comments are sometimes a guilty pleasure of sorts that many of us indulge … Continue reading Divisiveness. | Temporal Tim

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain As hinted at in my previous post, I'm now tentatively approaching the topic of same-sex marriage, in the context of WordPress' endorsement and more broadly the increasingly concerning normalisation of militant resistance to traditional values. … Continue reading Temporal Tim | The ‘Left’.

Well, I haven't blogged for a while. It feels refreshing to finally throw open the browser once more and hit the keys, letting the thoughts flow freely onto the screen. I'm going to touch briefly on an issue that I've pondered for some time now but feel that I need the medium of a blog … Continue reading I’m back. Kind of.

I'm a huge fan of country music. What an opening line! I could end the blog post right there, sit back, take a swig of coffee and nod slowly and appreciatively, before opening spotify to prove my own point by listening to Brad Paisley jam on guitar. In actual fact, I experience a great deal … Continue reading Graceland.

I'm sitting in exactly the same spot where I wrote my previous blog post, and I'm staring out of the same window at the same snow touched ridge, fading in and out of view through a thin layer of cloud that never quite threatens to come any closer. It's a beautiful day - frigid but … Continue reading Creation.

"You see those houses up there? Yeah, the ones on the ridgeline. The average cost of those places is about $7 million, and they're occupied between two and three weeks a year." Our van fell silent for a moment. I had finished working at one of the local ski resorts here in Utah, and was … Continue reading Utah.

A while back, at university, I was introduced to the Doomsday Clock - a concept run by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that charts how close civilisation is to destroying itself with technologies of its own making. The clock charts how many minutes away we are from 'midnight', or the end of civilisation, and has … Continue reading The Doomsday Clock.

Today is the 10th of November, 2016, and it officially marks the beginning of the post-election hangover that large swathes of the United States must inevitably be suffering through. Donald J. Trump. It's certainly surreal. The real-estate tycoon turned reality show host, now leader of the Free World. Trump's vulgarity, his bigotry, and misogynistic personality … Continue reading First post.