WHITE HOUSE INTRODUCES GREENER EGG

Participants in the Easter White House egg roll traditionally receive a painted wooden egg as a souvenir. The Christian Scientist Monitor reports on an Obama innovation for this year's event:

The White House on Thursday unveiled the official 2009 Easter Egg which is purported to be much more environmentally friendly than past Easter Eggs.The eggs are coated with "renewable, vegetable oil-based" paint.

This is quite a change from the Bush years, when the eggs were painted by detainees in secret CIA prisons using "lead-based arsenic paint probably made from nuclear waste and ground-up dolphins".

Speaking of Bush, here's a photo from Easter 2008.

Better to hug a bunny than bow to a king.