I'm really suprised at how much the media, and some bloggers too, are fawning over Hunter Thompson after his suicide. What suprises me even more is what his family did after finding him dead.

The literary champ was sitting in his command post kitchen chair, a piece of blank paper in his favorite typewriter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot through the mouth hours earlier.

But a small circle of family and friends gathered around with stories, as he wished, with glasses full of his favored elixir — Chivas Regal on ice.

The article then follows with a bunch of crap that this suicide was his ultimate act of strength, he went out on top, yada yada.

Please. Its a chickenshit way out for a man who's career peaked 30 years ago.

A 1st grader in Missouri got herself 2 days detention for giving another student a bag of dirt and rocks on the playground. She put rocks, dirt and clover in the bag then tied it up w/ a ponytail holder and gave it to her friend. The friend ended up giving it to a teacher, and the teacher thought it looked like a bag of marijuana.

Microsoft says it will release IE7 this summer and it will include anti-spyware protection, including anti-phishing capabilities. But, it will only work on machines upgraded to WinXP SP2.

Torrez smuggled a bomb thru airport security. A bath bomb.

MovableType launched a site re-design today. Interesting decision for a blogging software company to remove their blog from the front page.

Tiger Woods is on the verge of re-taking the #1 position in the world rankings this weekend with a good finish. Not much of a suprise there.

Welcome to the 1st week of Howard Dean's reign as DNC chair: Jeff Gannon - gay prostitute and Scott McClellan visiting gay bars in 1995.

Its nice to see that with Dean at the wheel, the Dems are finally focused on the meat of the issues - rather than that touchy-feely crap they are known for. Yep, nothing like a couple of good old outings to get the Dean ball rolling for our tolerant friends on the Left.

Uh oh, Xtina is engaged. Solo is gonna be moping around for days over this news.

Solosier has his site back up and active again.

There are finally screenwriters signed up for Jennifer Government, the novel by Max Barry. This could be a very cool movie, or it could turn out like something destined for the SciFi Channel.

Kids too perfect:

Every student in last year's 11th-grade class at the DeBakey High School for Health Professions passed every section of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.

But officials at the Texas Education Agency are reluctant to report that happy news, fearing it might violate a federal law.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is designed to protect students' privacy. The argument goes that, knowing 100 percent of the students passed a test would let the world know how each student did.

To get around this, they are reporting that only 99% of the students passed.