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(CNN) - Paying for some Bruce Springsteen tickets these days may be “Tougher Than The Rest.” That’s because Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” has some seats reaching $4000 to $5000 a seat. The high prices are not going over well. “I’m sure you won’t see this @springsteen but you or your management need to have a word with the abhorrent criminals running @Ticketmaster who are charging exorbitant amounts to see you in concert,” one person tweeted. “Please listen to your fans, nobody can afford these ridiculous ticket prices.” Writer John Semley tweeted that Springsteen should “write a song about a working man...

While we were enjoying our turkey and getting a head start on shopping for the holidays, fellow local bloggers brought to our attention a new board game we can get our friends for Christmas: Your Best Life Now: The Game. Why buy the game of Life when you can buy Your Best Life Now, right? Hmm. The board game takes you through "The 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential." Our favorite is Level 2: Develop a Healthy Self Image. On this level, you have 15 seconds to look into a mirror (included with the game) and make positive...

Yeah! This was a brutal week. 33% of my office was out on paternity leave (okay, so there's only 3 of us). K, leave all seriousness aside and get silly. And if you blew it all on Wednesday, pffft! As Rita approached,all of East Texas boarded up in preperation. Here's a pic from College Station of the efforts... If you've been living in a cave in Afghanistan for the last week you may have missed this:

Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the suspected al-Qaida leader in Iraq, was spotted south of the northern Iraqi oil-center of Kirkuk, reports said Monday. The daily al-Taakhi, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani, quoted a police source in Kirkuk as saying Zarqawi had fled the battles in Fallujah to northern Iraq and might have been wounded. "Zarqawi was able to sneak out of Fallujah with the help of his followers and moved in stages to the province of Toz Khormatu, south of Kirkuk," said the source, who was not identified. He said...