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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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Change for the better

By Libby



Hilzoy posts on the historic import of Obama's candidacy and in reading it I realized how removed I was emotionally from the historic aspects of both Democratic candidates. Race and gender had absolutely no bearing on my decisions. Not unusual for me. I've never weighed my interactions with people on the basis of social status or on any external factors. My only criteria in choosing friends and associates is on their honesty and compassion for their fellow humans.



The full import of this long awaited outcome finally hit me this morning. In a coutry where only a few decades ago, a person of color couldn't even use the same drinking fountain as white folk, it seems likely our next president will be a black man. I can only imagine what it feels like to the black community but even for me, this is huge.



After seven long years of watching the GOP and the Bush administration chip away at the civil rights we all fought so hard for in the sixties, it feels like we've finally taken a step back towards sanity and humanity again. It feels good.



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  1. EarlJune 5, 2008 at 2:54 AM

    I do recall Tweety mentioning on Tuesday night what it must be like for people around the world after seven+ years of W terrorizing them to wake up one day and see a black man nominated to replace him.
    This could be good for U.S. in a great many ways.

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  2. LibbyJune 5, 2008 at 3:23 AM

    I think I'm finally feeling the audacity of hope Earl.

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  3. EarlJune 5, 2008 at 2:04 PM

    As long as you remember that it's going to take some time and not everything happens three seconds ago, that feeling is pretty good, isn't it?

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  4. LibbyJune 6, 2008 at 12:40 AM

    Exactly. One shouldn't expect miracles and maybe nothing will really change, but for the first time in almost a decade, a change for the better feels at least possible.

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