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
Meanwhile, Maarquette U. won't let a graduate student put a Dave Barry quote on his office door. http://www.thefire.org/article/7408.html
Posted by: David | September 29, 2009 at 08:02 PM
I wonder if FIRE would feel the quote was "innocuous" if you replace the words "federal government" with "NRA" or "the Religious Right" or "conservative Republicans" or...
Posted by: daniel rotter | October 03, 2009 at 03:56 PM