Flea Snobbery takes a vacation

This blog turns a year old this week, and as a celebration, I've decided to take a short recess. Barring any unexpected inconveniences or extended laziness, updates will be resumed next Tuesday. See you soon!

Intelligent design

"Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name..."

"Thank you, Lord, for reminding us that you don't forsake us..."

"The visual recognition module needs some tweaking."

"Impossible. The project has already run over budget."

Testimonial

"Doctor, is it true that your therapy totally eliminates stress?"

"Oh, yes! I used to be constantly stressed because time and money were never enough. But ever since I created this therapy, I live very well seeing only three patients a day. It has worked wonderfully for me!"

Semantics

What do you mean you don't know James Randi?

"This is not what I had in mind."

"Look, I just showed you that I can read thoughts, didn't I? Now stop making excuses and cough up that million already."

The law

"For I have designed thee, thou shalt abide by these laws which I shall give thee..."

"Sixth law: no man shall kill another man, except when this would conflict with laws number one to five. Seventh law..."

Bioethics

"That's right. We were trying to genetically engineer a Homo mathematicus, a human being with an intuitive grasp of chance and probabilities. But some people said that we were doing something immoral and had us shut down."

"Religious groups? Human rights organizations?"

"Lottery vendors."

The return

It happens that the chronopod is a very dangerous technology.

"In this new attempt to use the chronopod in defense of the values of the faith, the mistakes of those who came before us will not be repeated. We will do what should have been done in the first place. We'll bring too our time the most important person to have ever lived!"

"Hallelujah!"

"Praise Him!"

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

"Go, sell everything you have and give it to the poor, and you will have a treasure in heaven."

"Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing."

David

Some culture to celebrate the hundredth Flea Snobbery cartoon!

"Shame on you, signor Buonarroti! You're depicting and impossibly perfect physical ideal and creating self-esteem issues in the young!

Research

"So, you want to research psychic phenomena?"

"Yes! They are very enigmatic and I think we need to know more about them."

"That's fine. Our institution will sponsor your project."

Years later...

"Well, professor? What has your team found so far?"

"We have confirmed beyond any doubt that psychic phenomena are indeed very enigmatic and we need to know more about them."

"Amazing! We have to publish these findings at once!"