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 14, 2008

Scotland U20 41-14 USA U20

By Cernig



When it comes to sports, first and foremost I'm a Rugby Union fan - I used to play in high school and at university. The Scotland squads have been utterly abyssmal of late but there are signs of an improvement. The youngsters, in particular, are showing signs of remembering how to play the game. USA played a strong game, especially their forwards - I suspect a bit of American Football style brawn and grunting came in handy there. The first team, mind you, turned out a creditable performance today too, beating Argentina 26 - 14.



I know a couple of US rugby players down here in San Antonio - there's a very creditable local team. Hard as nails, all of them, recalling Giles from Buffy's infamous quote: "I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby."



If you get a chance and you're an American Football fan, watch or play some rugby. I think you'll find it faster, requires more stamina (they don't stop every few minutes for commercials) and a very tough, physical game.



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