While I am not a very religious person, I’m not sure that having St. Isidore watch over me while I surf is not a terrible idea.

Every day, my email box and banner ad spaces are inundated with proclamations of hot webcam naughtiness and enticements of the 581% variety. I could also use a little divine guidance when I get pulled into a flame war by some trolling 12-year-old talking about how David Duke had some good ideas. I imagine St. Isidore would look well on gifts purchased online like hockey Jesus. I also doubt that St. Isidore would look favorably on God’s words being twisted thusly. Would he smite down the offenders with a DOS attack? Or would email bomb them with thousands of “Thou shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain” emails?

Sure, it seems a little hokey at first to have a saint watch over you as you surf, but I think the Internet could use a little patience, humanity and righteousness. As long as these folks don’t have anything to do with it. It makes a strange dichotomy that the Catholic church, which conducts masses in Latin down the road from my house, yet, at the same time, they propose an Internet saint. It’s certainly a changing world, but I don’t think praying for a faster connection will bend St. Isidore’s ear