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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Friday, August 22, 2008

I'm not perfect

By Libby



I haven't been posting much here lately because I've been concentrating my efforts at the Detroit News, where the readers need educating on the inherent danger of voting Republican. Now, I have to agree with Hilzoy that in a perfect world, I would be posting about "how McCain doesn't know what an economic stimulus is, how he doesn't understand what a cap and trade system is and about his hysteria-based foreign policy." Unfortunately, we don't live in that world and I often post on the trivial non-issues of the day as determined by the elite media. Like houses.



However, when I see "Obama's 46% to 39% statewide advantage is especially aided by a 39-point bulge among voters in Wayne County, including Detroit," I'd like to think I had something to do with that, so it's worth it. I suppose that's really just wishful thinking, but I hear Michigan is going to be a swing state and I did inspire a letter to the editor the other day, so I just keep doing what I'm doing and hope it really does help.



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  1. EarlAugust 22, 2008 at 6:45 PM

    Do what you can, where you can and hope others are doing the same.
    Damn near a perfect system, as far as I care.

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  2. LibbyAugust 23, 2008 at 1:44 AM

    That's all any of us can do Earl.

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