Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Fester's Bio

Dave Anderson (aka Fester) is a twenty something New Englander who has lived in Steelers country for the past decade.


My interests have always been towards the unusual and the unconventional as the edge solutions and questions tend to be far more interesting.  I was trained in urban economic analysis at Carnegie Mellon and I believe that the urban solution and problem set will be one of the major, systemic problem and solution sets of my lifetime as cities are amazingly confusing and complex beasts.  This urban interest has led me to 4th Generation and other non-conventional strategic approaches as I believe they have higher fidelity to reality and more explanatory and predictive power than conventional approaches of conflict analysis. 


I am still trying to figure out how I've been here for a decade as I came to Pittsburgh initially for school, stayed for grad school, met my wife, and then we found out we liked it here, had decent jobs and could afford a house.  And then wow, six years later we have an amazing daughter. 


So besides my amazing and understanding wife and our inquisitive daughter,  we live with Zoe the upstairs cat and Meela, the downstairs cat.   When I am not writing or working, I am running up and down soccer fields, reading and being a general nerd. 



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