The Good, the Bad, and the Surreal

From e-mails or comments received in the past 24 hours:

 If Insight Scoop is not the best Catholic blog there is, I can't imagine what could be better.  I am amazed daily at the inspiring, informative, critically devastating, humorous, thought-provoking items you post. 

Thank you! I can say with all honesty that Insight Scoop is the best blog I'm currently moderating, editing, and shamelessly promoting. I'll happily leave judgments about "best" to intelligent, insightful, and objective readers such as the one who wrote this kind note.

And, in response to my post about Steve Jobs:

Steve´s words were said to protect us from dogmatic persons like you.

Too which I say: I'm simply going to take Jobs' advice: "Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." So take that, you dogma-hater, you.

And from another reader, also about the Jobs post (not to be confused with far less substantive jobs bills):

[Jobs] did not only know God (we again go back to the mention of heaven) but he loved and served God by loving the people the world through Apple/Pixar/NeXt ultimately sacrificing himself and I guess he had time to say sorry (so much loved giving people the best it caused cancer), it was a happy death, it wasn't sudden. also having mentioned going to heaven means his soul knew where he is going and reason says this is true because his love to bring joy through good design (showing humble leadership as a ceo who is a presenter and the 1$ salary, of course the humility isn't perfect).This love we now enjoy through cool tech.

Uuuuuuuuhhhhhh. Yeah. Hmmmm.