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, June 16, 2009

Just a reminder

By Fester:



Not everything is about US or even the US news cycle. I'm glad that the Obama Administration realizes that regarding Iran:



�The point is this is not about us,� said one administration official, who has been working on the issue of Iran. �The point here is we will continue to monitor the situation to see how it, in a sense, resolves itself over the coming days. The pressure is on them to demonstrate to the world that this was a legitimate election and that the outcome reflects the will of the Iranian people....."



John Cole notes that a good chunk of the blogospheric coverage is 2002/2003 WarBlog-riffic vibe right now. I agree with him on that.



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  1. geoffJune 16, 2009 at 1:11 PM

    Sullivan is, from my point of view, thinking again in his ragged way and it seems needing to catch a lucky break issue to keep his so-called reputation or ego pumped. But he does seem to fit, from what I've seen, with most of the corporate and private media - i.e. bloggers - which has since Friday been grasping at straws. It is actually quite funny to watch in a sick sort of way. It reminds me of the 1st Gulf War and a group of office colleagues - all never having been in or near the forces - endlessly getting their rocks off watching so-called precision bombs exploding on TV.
    The so-called coverage both corporate & private, unfortunately, reminds me alot of the old Indian legend the blind men and the elephant

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