“This Is Why I Don’t Worry About What You Get Up To When I’m Out Of Town”

By Patrick MurphyPosted on August 20, 2022December 30, 2022Cat Lifestyle, Story TimeTags Ethics, Finn, Me, Morons, Stacie1 Comment

Stacie goes on several business trips a year. She and our partner at RSMDME vend at shows in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and some of them are full weekend trips. This is a Good Thing – she gets out of the house for a while (she’s been on work from home for years now), and I… Read More »

No Gods. No Masters.

By Patrick MurphyPosted on September 15, 2020September 13, 2020Cat LifestyleTags CHUDs, Ethics, Losers, Me, My History, Self-Improvement, SkoolLeave a comment

Also known as having a strong internal locus of control. There are two kinds of people when we’re talking about locus of control. There are some shades of gray and some circumstances that throw a wrench into the works sometimes, When I was younger, I was surrounded by losers. A lot of this was due… Read More »

Disability

By Patrick MurphyPosted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020Cat LifestyleTags Ethics, LosersLeave a comment

I’ve known several disability scammers in my life. They went to a doctor with a sob stary and list of symptoms from the internet, got a depression diagnosis, and proceeded to live in poverty for the next several years. I’d say the rest of their lives, but I stopped hanging around the most noteworthy losers… Read More »

So Here’s Something That’s Just Sad

By Patrick MurphyPosted on July 12, 2020August 5, 2020Cat Story TimeTags CHUDs, Ethics, Gaming, Losers, Morons, White SupremacistsLeave a comment

I was in a Facebook group for tabletop RPGs. It wasn't much of a group, to be honest, just endless "look how creative I am for playing vanilla D&D," "I'm such a nerd for playing D&D now that it's popular," and people spamming the group with their awful "art" or blogs that they've spammed so… Read More »

One Of The Most Toxic Value Systems I Have Ever Encountered

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020Cat Story TimeTags Ethics, Morons, Philosophy, ReligionLeave a comment

"There is nothing you can say that will change my mind. If you don't stand for something, you will fall for everything. People believe what they believe and nothing can change that; nobody changes what they believe. This isn't close-mindedness, it's principle." Where I come from, that's called proud, deliberate ignorance. He wears it as… Read More »

Life Lessons From Kids’ Cartoons

By Patrick MurphyPosted on May 10, 2020May 10, 2020Cat LifestyleTags Cartoons, Ethics, Geek, Philosophy, Science Fiction, TVLeave a comment

When I was a kid, I had two real choices for cartoons before school: Robotech and GI Joe. There were some pretty significant differences between the two shows, and I think these differences are to blame for certain aspects of my personality; there's a reason I own two different DVD versions of the full series… Read More »

Story Time: Ministerial and Definitional Foolishness

By Patrick MurphyPosted on November 14, 2018May 8, 2020Cat Lifestyle, Story TimeTags Christianity, Ethics, Logic, Me, Morons, Philosophy, Religion, Story Time, Weapons-Grade StupidLeave a comment

I'm an ordained minister. No joke, I got bored and signed up with the ULC. I can referee weddings, throw funerals, and perform exorcisms, and have just as much legal right to do so as the priest at your local church. Mentioned this in passing a few times over the years, and while most people… Read More »