Dirt Diver / Kansas

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Who We Are

Simply put, we are you!

The Dirt Diver concept envisions a blog with user-generated content, posted several times per day, that is as funny as it is informative. The Sunflower State badly needs a political sense of humor, and that is what inspired the Dirt Diver blog.

But if we are going to succeed, we need you to send us stuff.  Lots of stuff.

Our Promise to Protect Your Identity

We already know that YOU have a political agenda. That is fine with us. We think it is far more important to keep both sides of the political aisles honest through scathing political satire than it is to engage in tit-for-tat nastiness and tearing down those who comment and participate on this blog.

For those with a political agenda, a strong opinion, we welcome you.

We, too, have an agenda: to fuse political information with entertainment.  We recognize that without input from YOU, we will not succeed.  That is why Dirt Diver promises to NEVER reveal the identity of any contributor, unless you specifically say it is OK to do so.

We need your input!  We need your artwork!  We need your hot tips, rumors and political scuttlebutt.  Please send it our way.

Sling Some Mud With Us!

We are always looking for more people to join our ranks.  Send us stuff.  We’ll post it.  Send us a LOT of stuff, and we’ll give you your own ID and password and you can post it yourself!  Whenever you want.  Right on the Dirt Diver blog.

The internet is chock full of easy to use comic generators, image editors, and other sources of humorous inspiration.  But being funny isn’t easy.  In fact, we often go to bed laughing at our latest handiwork and wake up the next morning wondering if anyone is going to get the joke.

If you have Photoshop skills, video editing skills, or you know how to find your way around www.icanhascheezburger.com, you have what it takes to sling mud with Dirt Diver.

Don’t be afraid, folks.  Send in the jokes.  Yes, we’ll express our opinions here.  It doesn’t mean yours is not welcome.

Steal Our Stuff!

If you admire our fine handiwork, and think it would fit nicely on your blog, please, download our photos and use them on your site.  All we ask in return is that you give Dirt Diver / Kansas a shout on your blog (mention us in the post where you used the photo, and optionally, add us to your blogroll – if you have an active blog, we’ll do the same for you).

Value Your Privacy, But Still Want to Participate?

So do we!  Politics can be a nasty business.  Some of our elected officials have prosecution power, others control vast purse strings that hurt badly when drawn shut.  Still others control large and small government bureaucracies that employ hundreds of people.

Perhaps you work for one of those people.  Perhaps you ARE one.

We don’t care.  Join us.  We don’t need to know your name.  Make something up (“Khaleed the Photoshop Assassin” is fine with us), email us from an anonymous Yahoo! Mail or GMail account, and we’ll publish your stuff on Dirt Diver.

It Doesn’t Have to Be a Photo…

Send us the text of those love letters you “discovered” between Paul Morrison and his mistress.  Maybe you wrote a Limerick that goes something like this one, from an emailer named “Hot for Huelskamp”:

There once was a man from Hays; Who was in Washington DC for many days; In his heart was plunged a dagger; when voters learned he was a carpetbagger; And now back in Virginia he stays.

Ouch!  Somewhere in Hays (or Virginia?), a carpetbagger’s lip is bleeding.  Speaking of carpetbaggers, we invite them to post on this blog too!  Send us stuff, Wasinger fans!  We promise to rip on Tim Huelskamp just the same.

Other ways you can “sling” mud with us:

• Youtube videos of fake (or real) campaign commercials
• Sound files edited in creative ways
• Powerpoint slideshows (we can embed them on the site…just send them in!)
• Etc.

Rumors, Gossip, News and other Half-Truths

Like any other blog, we love to be first with stuff.  But often we get stuff that we can’t confirm.  If we can detect a whiff of truth, or if you’ve submitted something reliable before, we’ll submit the rumor/gossip/tidbit to the Dirt Diver community and let them vote on it’s reliability/credibility.  We don’t know how scientific this might turn out to be, but we think it will be entertaining at the very least.

Ideology

Dirt Diver seeks to keep both sides honest.  Those who contribute to the blog always have strong opinions, and in most cases are all strongly ideological, but there are no ideological restrictions on what goes up on the site.  If you’re in Kansas politics, you’re fair game.  That’s our take.  We’ll probably end up making everybody angry before too long, but that’s half the fun.    If you think we’re biased and ripping too much on your side, then get in the game!  Send us something that rips back on the other side.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Dirt Diver