Today’s comic is in reference to the mind-reading machines that are being marketed to airports, and also to the gifts that dolphins give each other.

The comic is a little more than 3 hours late today because my computer sucks and because I did something stupid while inking the comic that I later couldn’t undo, so I had to fix it by hand. As you can tell, the perspective is a little strange, and I’m not very good at hands and feet. Hopefully this will get better with practice. It took me forever to sketch the idea down and get everything placed more or less correctly. That being said, I’m very happy with the way it turned out, especially the characters.

On the topic of the comic, I seriously question the need for the fMRI machines in airports. Our society is enough of a Big Brother without the government reading my thoughts. Also, if these machines do get put in, how are they going to qualify their use? Do only suspicious people get their mind read? Or is everybody going to be subject to interrogation and mind reading? We’re on a very slippery slope with our Big Brother society already, and we don’t have the CCTV camera coverage that the United Kingdom has.

In case you missed Mythbusters this week, Grant Imahara defeated an fMRI machine, just like the ones proposed here, by constantly keeping his mind busy while being interrogated. I imagine that airport screeners won’t know what to do if they ask you questions and your answers light up the pleasure center of your brain because you are forcing yourself to think about sex.

On the subject of dolphin courting rituals, I guess if weeds and twigs are the only things available, they could be very romantic, though I’m sure it’s a matter of time before the dolphins figure out how to open oysters and extract pearls. Next thing you know, not only will your tuna taste funny, but you might find a surprise worth several thousand dollars in your dinner.

Chances are pretty good that there won’t be a comic on Sunday, on account of a basketball game.

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