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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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Rachel rocks

By Libby This is why I really love the internets. I heard about this segment last night but I missed it because I was watching CSPAN. However, thanks to YouTube, one never has to miss any of the good stuff.

Rachel so rocks. [via Creature]



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5 comments:

  1. Charles IIAugust 26, 2008 at 7:50 PM

    Rachel is one of the few people in the media who simply uses common sense. McCain's frequent use of the POW issue is *already* a punchline, as the graphic from TMV that Ron Beasley linked showed.

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  2. Kyle E. MooreAugust 27, 2008 at 1:17 AM

    And this would be why I have had a crush on Rachel for like... ever... now.

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  3. LibbyAugust 27, 2008 at 2:26 AM

    Rachel is the one bright spot in the media circus.
    And LOL Kyle. You're only about the millionth person I've heard say that, male and female.

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  4. Kyle E. MooreAugust 27, 2008 at 3:04 AM

    *sigh*
    unrequited love sucks.

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  5. flashbridgeOctober 31, 2008 at 12:18 PM

    Rooting for Rachel. Let's see, beautiful, whipsmart, rapier whit, oh, and that little mole on her neck. What's not to love.

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