Via an NPR story on Houston, one of the great news ledes of all time:

The constitutional right to have a giant inflatable gorilla in a bathing suit and sunglasses grabbing consumer attention from a Houston business rooftop is the key issue in a trial that began in federal court on Wednesday.

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom… to display things like this:

God bless America!

Update 9/29 4:52 PM — Sarah Cook has an awesome tweet linking to this post:

First they came for the giant inflatable gorillas, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a giant inflatable gorilla: http://tr.im/A8Ke