OBAMA OUTREACH

The White House and the Family Equality Council wants the world to know that homosexual and transgender heads of families and the children they are raising participated in Monday's White House Easter Egg Roll.

Still no official head count on the number of such unique families that hunted for eggs on the White House grounds, but in 2006 more than 100 such households were in attendance and organizers were touting the same number, if not more, on Monday.

"[B]ut this time the White House has specifically encouraged them to participate in this time-honored event," the council noted, adding that President Obama last year became the first presidential candidate to openly affirm the equal value of "LGBT" (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) families in an August 2008 letter to the council's executive director Jennifer Chrisler.

SHRINK GOVERNMENT

Government bureaucrats take note: there's a new, fun-filled, fact-driven, federal employee handbook of sorts (actually, it's better described as a 450-page guerilla guide to surviving government service) written by federal government veteran William B. Parker, titled "The Agency Game: Inside the Bureaucratic Jungle."

Mr. Parker, who also worked for a Fortune 15 corporation, divides federal employees into four categories: "Idealists" (those who believe that they and only they can solve society's problems); "Clock-punchers" (former idealists who have become cynical and are going through the motions); "Hangers-on" (bureaucrats who have reached their career plateau and are hanging on until retirement; and "Power seekers" (those who will do anything without a shred of concern for the public good).

The book has 250 titled chapters, each enlightening. Our favorite, given title of this column, is "Beltway, Inside The."

"Also noteworthy," we read in the chapter, "Washington boasts the highest concentration of shrinks per capita of any other major U.S. city . . . . One good thing: their benefit package pays the tab."