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It's time to dredge through the muck and mire of the blogosphere to come out with a few gems of commentary, sass, and sarcasm about our Houston sports teams. And awaaaaaay we go: - If you're a Mario Williams apologist, Sunday was Redemption Day. The good folks at Brahsome are shouting it from the rooftops today. - As noted last week, the miscreants over at Orange Whoopass are all over the Astros search for a...

Remember when a former identity thief found a bunch of personal documents in a Dumpster behind a closed CVS store in Liberty back in late March? So does Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who filed suit against CVS yesterday, accusing the company of failing to protect its customers' personal information. About 1,000 records — with information including credit card and Social Security numbers — were found March 19, and though Abbott said his office hasn't...

Good morning, Houston. Yeah, it's been a while since we had a Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee media moment — but now, thanks to Isiah Carey, we have a classic: a series of photos showing Jackson Lee's skill in getting in front of TV cameras during Sen. Hillary Clinton's visit to Houston last week. The hardest-working woman in Congress? You betcha — don't you know it's tough do to your own blocking? [via HouStoned] >>...

Good morning, Houston. Today, the world is a little less colorful: Political columnist and legendary wit Molly Ivins died Wednesday evening after a seven-year battle with breast cancer. She was 62. Ivins was a diehard liberal whose folksy charm and pointed wit won over people on both sides of the aisle — and, of course, where better to practice political punditry than Texas? "Naturally, when it comes to voting, we in Texas are accustomed...

Good morning, Houston. Let's be frank with each other, shall we: Haven't you ever thought of yourself as a superhero? Yeah, we thought so. You'll be happy to know that it's your lucky day — or weekend, whatever — because the Sci Fi channel's Who Wants to Be a Superhero? is casting. Candidates have to have their identities set, show up in costume and explain "the true nature of their superhuman abilities and invoking the...

Sean Brown, one of two 18-year-old Sugar Land men charged with the murder of 16-year-old Ashton Glover, is in the Fort Bend County Jail under a $1 million bond. Brown waived his extradition rights in a Michigan court Monday, arrived in Fort Bend County on Wednesday and was arraigned yesterday.

So we hear stories from time to time about identity theft — you know, people getting hold of your credit card numbers from the Internet or maybe sifting through your trash to steal bank account info. But recently, it was much easier to steal people's personal information — old Houston Community College student records, complete with Social Security numbers, were being sold on the street. It seems the records came from a warehouse HCC sold a few years ago, but left paperwork in.

Last night, HPD officers shot a man who was stealing tools from a police impound lot off Houston Avenue; the man, who is expected to recover from the wounds, had rushed at the officers with a tire iron The state has ordered Harris County to begin moving inmates from jails here to other county jails in the region to ease overcrowding Houston Community College officials are trying to figure out what to do after finding...

This will make you laugh: FEMA is asking 625 people in Texas to pay back $1.26 million in Hurricane Rita aid that the government accidentally gave them. So the government is all, "Sorry, we overpaid you. Can we have it back now?" and East Texans are like, "Uh, sure, let me give you some extra money while I'm at it." Ha! That's rich!

Brazoria officials had been after ex-mail carrier Russell Meuth for months about the trash in his back yard — not only was the yard junky, but there were reports of smoke there a couple weeks ago, a violation of a city ordinance and county burn ban. But when officials got a search warrant and went into the yard over the weekend, they were surprised at what they found: several containers of chemicals and 34 U.S. Postal Service boxes full of undelivered mail. Some of the chemicals may have been taken from a nearby Dow Chemical plant, and the mail seems to date from 2003, when Meuth delivered mail in Brazoria.

Yesterday we talked about how some Visa check card holders' personal information might have been compromised, and today there's news of personal bank records found in a Dumpster in The Woodlands. Is nothing sacred? Was Houstonist's mom right when she told us to keep our savings under our mattress?