A Des Moines Register article discusses how many bosses are unwilling to allow night shift workers to caucus. Understandably this makes politically active employees a little upset. The article quotes a Medicom employee who said,
"It made me so furious. I raised such a fit I’m surprised they didn’t send me home."
It’s true
An Iowa man who worked with Catfish Bend Casinos in Burlington was fired for posting a Dilbert 
cartoon on the office bulletin board. Apparently the boss didn’t appreciate the comparison to a drunken lemur.
Dilbert creater, Scott Adams, offers this advice:
If you intend to mock your boss with Dilbert comics, the trick is in
Abe Lincoln, Freedom Fighter (1978)
Abe: I don’t know about this politician business.
Judge: What do you mean by that?
Abe: If I have to sacrifice my integrity for politics, I guess I’ll just have to stay a lawyer!
Up to this point I have avoided blogging on politics and the Iowa caucus. It’s
There is a nice article in the Business Record by Amanda Ripp this week about the Central Iowa Blogga Nostra gaining momentum and growing in popularity. I am continually impressed with the quality of individuals and business people who are blogging in Central Iowa. The article features several quotes from members of the Blogga Nostra extolling
There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. David Letterman.
Joe Kristan shows he is really in the holiday spirit over on the Roth & Company Tax Update blog when he followed up on tax professor James Maule’s post that every profession has its good and bad. I know a
The Mitchell Report was released on December 13, 2007. For baseball, it’s just another black mark on an era now known as the "Steriod Era".
But what was accomplished by the report? Did we really need the report to determine steriod use was (and apparently still is) widespread in major league baseball?
The report outed many of the big
I am attending the Iowa State Bar Association’s eCommerce seminar tomorrow. The man formerly known as the sixth best law blogger in the world is one of the presenters. I am looking forward to Brett’s talk as he shares his Vegas Blogworld speech with the audience.
It got me thinking a little bit about how to improve
Iowa accountant Joe Kristan of Roth and Company shares some year-end tax planning ideas over on IowaBiz.com.
It’s a good idea to visit your accountant now (if you haven’t already) to determine if there is anything you can do to improve your position come April.
The Rooftop Foundation is holding its annual shopping tour for the kids at the Moulton Elementary School this Saturday. The Rooftop Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created by Ken and Esta Deever of Deever Roofing.
Every year the Deevers (and 60 volunteers) load up two bus loads of children and arrange to take the children shopping
One couldn’t help but notice the carnage at the end of college football’s regular season. Coaches everywhere were fired or forced out. Some of those coaches even had winning records. Even the coach at my Division III alma mater didn’t survive the past few seasons of mediocrity.
Are college football fans just nuts or have these coaches created the
