Gomers -- What's going wrong

SEQUESTER SILLINESS CONTINUES: About 1,100 Iowa National Guard members who are military technicians will have to take 11 unpaid furlough days because of the ongoing effects of the federal sequestration budget cuts. Yet another questionable example of fallout from the silly sequester, whose total projected impact on Iowa programs in education, public health, work force development, among others, is about $46.5 million - almost as much as the IRS spent on conventions over three years. Ugh.

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GO HOME, GAWKERS: Officials who oversee the Coraville Dam and spillway had enough to worry about as the flooding threat rose a week ago, yet they also had to deal with a number of overzealous curiosity seekers. Dozens of spectators drove onto the dam to see the rising water, while others tried to climb up the steep spillway for a closer look at the lake. The Army Corps of Engineers finally decided to close the road over the dam on Tuesday. Below the spillway on the bloated Iowa River, boating was banned by Johnson County officials, but that didn't stop some people, including some canoeists, from testing their chances in the high, dangerous water.

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