Sam Graves, as it turns out, isn't sleazier than John McCain or Liddy Dole. It's not for lack of trying -- see Graves' abortion-loving, interracial, San Francisco sodomite wet dream:
Graves' homophobic campaign ads
finished third -- third?!? -- in Talking Points Memo's Golden Duke
Awards. I totally thought Graves had this one; the ads were good enough to win a 2008 Best Of Kansas City award from The Pitch. But our endorsement couldn't propel Graves' ads above Dole's "godless atheists" or John M
The KC Free Thinkers -- a group of atheists, agnostics and humanists -- gained some notoriety when they erected a provocative billboard in Overland Park last October. Saturday, they're employing a different attention-grabbing tactic: taking off their clothes. But this frigid baptism has got nothing to do with God.
Last week, when I glanced through a new proposal from Iggy Dybal, an atheist, real estate broker and a founder of the KC Freethinkers, I thought it was little more than a tongue-in-cheek mockery of Biblical prophesies. "If you are a Christian who believes in The Rapture and has pets, please, take notice," Dybal wrote in his announcement. "A few atheists in Kansas City are starting a 'Rapture Pets' service to take care of pets when Rapture happens and righteous Christians are taken up in heave
