Dawn sent out a link to a listing of Catholic patron saints. Wow, there are a lot of them, for all sorts of random things. For example:

Arms dealers What? Aren't they, yaknow, kinda evil?

Both blood banks and blood donors Because the "Be nice to me! I gave blood!" sticker you get just isn't enough.

Boy scouts But do they protect atheist boy scouts? And hey, why not the girl scouts?

Opposition to communism Either this is an extremely effective saint, or it's a saint that will soon be retired. I didn't notice a saint for opposition to rampant, soul-sucking capitalism. Bummer.

Death, a happy death, and sudden death Three separate patron saints. I don't know if the patron saint of death is supposed to be available for death workers -- executioners, hit men, etc. -- or is someone you're supposed to pray to to avoid said death workers.

Doubters Strangely, Joseph is the patron saint of this. Surely it should be Thomas. Or did he doubt to much to be canonized?

Editors I note that editors have two separate patron saints. One doubtless follows the AP Stylebook, the other the Chicago Manual of Style.

Geese Now I’m a little confused. There are saints to ward off dog bites and snakebites, and saints to protect livestock. Is the patron saint of geese supposed to protect you from geese, or protect your geese for you? They need to be more specific.

Hemorrhoid sufferers "This patron saint brought to you by Preparation H." I mean, why not a patron saint of ringworm, or lice, then?

Juvenile delinquents Again, is this saint supposed to protect juvies, protect you from juvies, or convert juvies? That's one busy saint.

Jumping Um, what?

Mongolia, Inner and Mongolia, Outer The Mongolians get two separate saints. Odd.

Neighborhood watch After I got robbed four times, my friend Sean suggested I go to one of the local bodegas and get the prayer candles that are supposed to ward against break-ins or torture thieves or something (I live in a heavily Hispanic area). I guess this is the candle I'd look for, as there is no patron saint of beartraps or convenient untraceable accidents.

Philatelists Because you never know what sort of spiritual peril you may run into in your quest for that rare 32-cent inverted eagle stamp.

Public Relations I can only suppose this saint is supposed to protect you FROM PR, because I can't really believe there would be a Saint of Spin.

Security forces, Andorran They get their own patron saint. Seriously.

Shorthand writers The mind reels.

Tourism, Spanish The weird thing is that the patron saint of Spanish tourism is Francis Xavier. You'd think it would be Santiago -- Saint James -- as the pilgrimage to Santiago di Compostela pretty much invented tourism -- well, ok invented European pilgrimages, which, one could argue, is the precursor of tourism. I'm just saying.

Various nationalities of nurses, soldiers, engineers, etc. get their own patron saints, as well. I can see why, say, French and Spanish soldiers wouldn't necessarily want to be praying to the same saint -- would the prayers cancel each other out? Would the saint make you stop fighting, like your mom used to? -- but engineers? How much conflict do Spanish and Italian engineers get into?

Liz sent an indignant note to the group asking why there was no patron saint of movie producers. I'd argue that that's another one of those gray areas -- do you pray to the saint to protect you as a movie producer, or to protect you from movie producers?

But I'm thinking there are a number of patron saints we need now. Patron Saint of Repetitive Stress Injuries, or Ergonomics. Patron Saint of Broadband Connectivity. Patron Saint of Crappy Radio Stations (obviously one to protect you from bad radio.)

What else?