The deplorable rise of the plastic Easter egg - Andrew Leonard - Salon.com

But I still can't get my head around the fact that this weekend, millions of children will, knowingly or unknowingly, reenact ancient rituals honoring the mystery of life by hunting for plastic eggs that symbolize the exact opposite of fertility and birth. Instead of resurrection, plastic eggs are all about everlasting nonbiodegradable un-death, inauthenticity and cheap disposability, not to mention global economic trends eating away at the livelihood of blue-collar American workers.

I tried and failed this morning to find out who invented the plastic Easter egg, so I could curse his or her memory.