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Good morning, Houston. When we were little, Mother Houstonist was always warning us not to look at the sun. But now we actually have good reason to stare — in a way, at least — because yesterday, NASA released the first-ever 3-D images of our galactic lightbulb. The images could lead to better predictions of solar eruptions, which can affect power lines and communication on Earth — but all we're really interested in right...

Good morning, Houston. So how about this Internet thing, eh? Thanks to it, we now have more information at our fingertips than ever before — but how do we know we're staying on the moral and religious high ground? By looking at sites that take on the godless liberal element of the info superhighway, that's how: Take, for example, Conservapedia and GodTube (we hope we don't need to tell you what sites they're going head-to-head with). Now, in addition to learning about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's makeup, President Taft's tone deafness and how to build a fallout shelter, we can also find out how to start a clown ministry and how Wikipedia is trying to make us all Democrats by using British spellings of some words (see No. 12 on the linked list). Knowledge, need we remind you, is power. [Thanks to By the Bayou for turning us on to GodTube.]

Wherefore art thou, Radar? This week KPRC dumped the lovable weather dog (sending Ken Hoffman into a tizzy, no doubt), and the mikemcguff blog chronicled it for us. Radar is moving on to bigger things though: he'll become the mascot for the John C. Freeman Weather Museum. The best part of this blog post is the speculation about Radar's uncontrollable barking during newscasts and the jealousy stewing in the hearts of KPRC anchors. We'll miss...

Looks like Gov. Rick Perry's order that all Texan pre-teen girls be vaccinated against HPV could be on its way out: Yesterday, members of the House Public Health Committee approved a measure to rescind the executive order, meaning the bill will move on for consideration in the full House, where it reportedly has the support of more than 90 of the House's 150 members. Rep. Dennis Bonnen (R-Angleton) filed the bill Feb. 5, three days...

So you'd think being dead would put a slight kink into the campaign of a candidate for state representative, right? Think again: Glenda Dawson's campaign seems to be going full steam ahead — though Dawson died Sept. 12. Dawson, a Republican, was running against Democrat Anthony DiNovo for a third term in the Texas House when she died. But it seems her campaign didn't slow down a whole lot; a new flier mailed to voters...

Next time you wonder why Houston isn't able to reduce its pollution levels, think about the local lawmakers who voted against legislation designed to protect the public from toxic air pollution. Seems 20 of 34 state representatives from the Houston metro area — all Republicans, some representing industrial districts east of Houston — voted to table five measures that would have tightened health screening levels for pollution, set fines for the periodic release of...