- The radio just ran a report about the Treasury Department’s money printing duties, and the topic brought to mind what Dad used to say whenever we drove by an Iowa feedlot. “It’s the smell of money,” he used to say. Which begs the following question: How do Treasury Department employees stand that smell all day long?
- Thought Iowa is relatively flat, ice climbing is very popular thanks to Don Briggs who invented the sport of ice silo climbing. I’m not making this up, and I’m not planning to take it up, even though “Philo, the silo ice climber” is a catchy phrase.
- Monument Men, directed by and starring George Clooney, will be in the theaters in February. Clooney plays the role of a WW2 Iowa soldier, thus proving our state’s best kept secret: Pull the feed cap off an Iowa man’s head, and you’ve got another George Clooney look alike.
What’s the best kept secret in your state? Leave a comment.
