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 25, 2009

Instahoglets, the "I'm Sick" Edition

By Steve Hynd


I've got a Summer cold, as has my five year old. So I've been up half the night coughing or trying to keep him happy and I'm in no condition to blog anything serious today. So I thought I'd share some of the more unusual links from my bookmarks with you.


-- There is always The Daily Grail when you need a shot of weird to brighten your day. It's where I started blogging and where our researcher Kat provides one of the daily news roundups. It's everything X-Files from the paranormal to cutting edge science, discussed by amateurs, experts, sceptics and true believers in a spirit of general bonhomie. A great site.


-- Strange Maps is one of the most fascinating blogs going. It's exactly what it says it is - a series of well-written posts featuring unusual maps, like the one showing the ever-evolving line following �the point at which an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the US would balance perfectly if weights of identical value were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person on the date of the census�, or the "best beer map of America".


-- For those who love digital art - especially science fiction, fantasy or horror art - CGTalk's forum galleries are the place to look. Over 2,000 pieces of artwork, many of them simply astoundingly good.


-- Scots Online, Pittin the Mither Tongue oan the Wab. The Scots language is not just a dialect of English, it is a seperate entity related to English in much the same way as Spanish is to Italian. This website provides articles on the Scots language, its evolution into its present form and even an English-Scots dictionary. I've been interested in Scots and the preservation of the language since my high school days over twenty years ago. We think in language and so when we lose a language we lose a way of thinking which is an integral part of a culture.



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  1. Peter G.June 25, 2009 at 12:07 PM

    My sympathies to you and your child. Hope you're both better soon.

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