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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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Happy Birthday Prince

Prince



By Libby



I was surprised to learn Prince turned 50 today. I saw him not so very long ago doing a big half time show in the rain and he still looked young.



I would have posted a video in honor of the ocassion but he's so paranoid about protecting his work, you can't get one. They apparently even block the sound on the YouTube covers. Bizarre. I liked some of his songs but his whole prima donna persona always bugged me so I wasn't a big fan. Anyway, it's odd to think of him as getting old.



The same for Michael Jackson, who will turn 50 in August, although I don't find that as jarring. I suppose because I watched him grow up.



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  1. nativedancerJune 8, 2008 at 2:33 AM

    50 is "old?" how young are you? according to your definition, obama is pretty close to old himself. hmm.

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  2. nativedancerJune 8, 2008 at 2:34 AM

    50 is "old?" how young are you? according to your definition, obama is pretty close to old himself. hmm.

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  3. nativedancerJune 8, 2008 at 2:34 AM

    50 is "old?" how young are you? according to your definition, obama is pretty close to old himself. hmm.

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  4. LibbyJune 8, 2008 at 5:13 AM

    LOL. I'm older than 50 so relatively speaking, 50 sounds young to me generally, but it sounds old when applied to celebs I think of as young. In my mind, some people stay fixed at a certain age. To give it context, I still think of my Dad as a 40 year old with a full head of black curly hair and I'm always a little jarred when I see him and realize he's not that anymore.

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  5. BJ BjornsonJune 8, 2008 at 10:29 AM

    I go with professions, myself. 50 for a politician or other high-ranking position in the business world like CEO, isn't terribly old. For sports and rock stars, it is generally well past your prime, though longevity in such fields is increasing.

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  6. LibbyJune 8, 2008 at 12:10 PM

    It really hits you when you realize the old rockers are now in their 60s.

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