On the blogroll, you'll see "Teh Squeaky Wheel" and are encouraged to check it out.  It's like a house where everyone in the family can just walk in, take off their shoes, chat for a bit, and take off to continue their day.  It's what the web should be like all over.  It doesn't matter what your politics, religion, orientation, shoe size, or anything else may be... you're welcome at teh Wheel.  (Most often, the word "the" is spelled "teh", along with many other endearing idiosyncrasies that you will pick up quickly.  I'm still getting a sense of "Brenda's Dryer", but I was gone for a while... so there's that)
 

Some history... my first exposure to blogs was when Deb Frisch had her meltdown over at Protein Wisdom.  I'm not going to link anything to her directly, but if you're not familiar with this psycho, Google and Wikipedia are good places to start.  An exceptionally fine man called Sinner started "Don't Hire Dr. Deborah Frisch" to help the academic world avoid a huge mistake in letting this horrible excuse for a human being (and I don't say that lightly) come anywhere near children again.
Eventually, the group that had gathered to assemble sufficient documentation of  Deb's craziness decided that they really liked being together and didn't need a shared revulsion of Frisch to continue doing so.  Sinner started teh Wheel, named after Frisch called the DHD'ers a bunch of gerbils.  Thus was born the Gerbil Nation.  It's no longer about Frisch in any sense other than she occasionally stops by and spews venom from between alcohol-numbed lips.

You won't find a finer group of folks and everyone is treated with the respect they deserve.  Snark is good-natured and taken as such.  Future posts will probably mention many of the truly talented and intelligent gerbils who include writers, lawyers, teachers, nurses, computer folks, and just about every occupation you might name.  I will also profile a few (with their permission of course) to give everyone an idea of how high-quality the membership is.

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