I wish I could have made it to one Tea Party or another, but I couldn't. (Have to say, two million is an impressive figure.)

Instead, I went to the Detroit Zoo, where I didn't get to see signs like this one:

However, I did see signs like this:

While the sign from the Tea Party is beyond dispute, the truthfulness of the sign from the zoo men's room is highly debatable.

I don't know whether they're early risers, but I got a picture of this sleepy tree sloth at the zoo:

Coco does a pretty good imitation of that, but usually in her favorite blanket, never in a tree:

And I caught a polar bear stretching itself in the hot sun, as if to demonstrate that it wasn't especially worried about death from global warming:

This pair of chuckwallas was in an air-conditioned indoor enclosure, and they seemed even less concerned than the polar bear:

And as I walked through a plexiglass tunnel, there were actually seals swimming over my head.

Finally, on the way out I couldn't resist taking a picture of these two macaques sunning themselves in the most insolent manner:

Japanese macaques, mind you. In Detroit.

(In an amazing coincidence, they also happen to be the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil macaques, but as there were only two of them, I guess I can say whatever I want.)

MORE: Brendan Nyhan says that the DC Tea Party did not attract 2 million people. I was at the zoo, so I don't know.

What I think would really suck would be for the numbers to vary depending on the political perspective of the people claiming to have them.

(You know, the way no one knows how many aliens there are....)