Let’s get meta for a moment: When I arrived at work this morning, Blog P.I. hadn’t been updated for 36 hours. In my e-mail inbox, I see a WordPress trackback notification — and then another. And a comment. On a post from August? The things you can learn from trackbacks:
Because she missed a court date in Denver yesterday, there now is a warrant out for the arrest of Deb Frisch in Colorado.
I think I know what state she won’t be visiting anytime soon. And I may be late to the party, but it seems the party came to me:
Frisch’s disturbing story has already been told, and I have nothing further to add, except to reaffirm the irony of the fact that Frisch’s academic focus is judgment and decision-making.
It’s plainly bad news for her — but it’s good news for Teh Squeaky Wheel — formerly known as Don’t Hire Deb — a smaller, right-wingier Eschaton created to obsess over closely follow every minor development since Frisch was first charged in Oregon. Frankly, they deserve each other. But I’ll give them a little credit for coining the word “Frischmas” — it lacks the originality of Fitzmas, but this ad hoc holiday actually arrived.
P.S. Mark my words — at some point I’ll get around to name-checking the final movie (one hopes) in this Stephen King adaptation train wreck.
P.P.S. Numbers are proprietary at least until I start tracking regularly on Alexa.
Hey now! We’re not right wing at the wheel. We’re just a group of people who were disgusted by Deb. Don’t Hire Deb was because of that disgust and our desire that any potential employer would know what they were getting before hiring. The Squeaky Wheel came about because we started to form a community and wanted a place to hang out that wasn’t about Deb. She followed to the new digs and commentedd for a while, but we moved on. Don’t Hire Deb exists because of her and will remain because of her. TSW isn’t about her (although many of us are very interested in what is happening as she has attacked several of the regulars). If something happens with her, we hear about it and pay attention, but we enjoy life more when she isn’t around.
And yet, there you are visiting and commenting at TSW.
Thanks for stopping by, good to see you! I’m not sure we entirely deserve you, though. You may be entirely too good for us, really.
TSW is not a primarily political site, I’ll give you that. But the comment threads do bear more than a passing resemblance to the off-the-cuff commentariat at Atrios; the main difference is the Wheelers themselves (going by their personal blogs) clearly lean right. Just an observation.
A lot of us don’t have blogs, including a number of the more left-leaning and/or libertarian. I can see where you would get that opinion from some of the personal blogs, but if you spent anytime at the wheel you would see that we just can’t be pigeonholed like that. There has been some recent “construction” at the wheel, so we are currently missing the political compass diagram that used to be posted (based on numbers from the web-based political compass site). If you had been able to see it, you would see that we cover the political spectrum. Beyond that, the biggest difference I see/feel is that differences of opinion are respected and the people at TSW go out of their way to not post things they know others would find offensive (with the exception of truly tasteless pictures of David Hasslehoff). From what I have seen and experienced, that is very unusual for any political site- right or left leaning.
I’m not familiar with Atrios or Eschaton; is that a good thing?
William
“TSW is not a primarily political site, I’ll give you that. But the comment threads do bear more than a passing resemblance to the off-the-cuff commentariat at Atrios;”
Please, spare us the condescension. You will “give” the Wheel nothing. No one can have a truly well informed opinion about the multiplicity of interesting communities on the net. Not even you. You should heed the road signs that give warning to opinion hazards that are a mile wide and an inch deep.
“I’m not familiar with Atrios or Eschaton; is that a good thing?”
It ain’t bad.
Ummm….I’m a Right-Winger.
Just sayin…
However, even if every single one of us WERE Right, I fail to see what that has to do with the fact that this “woman” has done and said some of the most vile, loathsome and hurtful things towards people and especially children. She has lkeft noone unscathed with her anti-Semitic, anti-male, anti-Paternal, anti-Human attacks. She thinks herself along the same lines of a serial bomber and has even nick named her house after Ted Kasczinski’s. The amount of evil this woman represents is unfathomable and one of the last things she has stated on her blog before taking it down was how she may “Denton” herself in such a way as to make it appear as though someone…one of the four of us she has befouled, actually did her in.
We all started trying to get her to seek professional medical and psychological help. This has been spurned at every turn. Her exploits…not anyone else’s…has now left her in trouble with the law and will lead her into prison and quite possibly without a dime, let alone any belongings, before this is all said and done.
I would like to know why this…ANY of this…has anything to do with whatever political leaning we on The Wheel have other than the fact that she, and she alone, went out in search of Conservative blogs to foul, insult and attack in a sick, twisted fantasy of becoming the Left’s Ann Coulter and to be Colbert’s side-kick and co-host.
Thanks for the link.
For the record, I like the Atrios line. Cute. Its a great piece of humor. We do have a lot of open threads, mostly because the conversation is free flowing and reader directed.
As some of the Gerbils have already said, we are not a politics site and we have moved on from “teh Deb”, mostly. This was worth reporting, so it is there. It is also the reason the community formed. We had a database problem earlier this week, so you really didn’t get a chance to see that 95% of the TSW content is non-deb related.
I hope you come back and check on us, or maybe even join the ranks of the Gerbil Nation. Once the DebStorm is over, we will be ourselves again.
Re traffic: Jealous much?
Teh wheel is a place where all religons, politics, or any other group ideas are treated with civility.
We are not united behind any one course, with teh exception of keeping track of teh menace known as Debbie Frisch.
You are welcome to visit or join us, as is anyone. Just remember that we do not suffer fools gladly.
I believe you have been what they call, “served”, Mr. Beutler.
belated, but….
awhile back, we had major members take of those
“ideology surveys,” and posted a graph of the
results @ teh wheel.
it turns out that some of teh wheel’s members
were pretty liberal. kinda kewl, i thought~~