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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Monday, June 29, 2009

The Thong Of The Dick Whisperer

By Steve Hynd


Mr Smoking Jacket, Dana Milbank, apparently called Nico Pitney a dick during their appearance on Reliable Sources yesterday.


And in an indication of which of the two Blogtopia (ysydctp) thinks has more integrity...



Over at CafePress, you can now buy all manner of clothing, accessories, and gadgets commemorating You�reSuchADickGate. For sale are T-shirts, sweatshirts, polo shirts, hoodies, onesies, baby bibs, coffee mugs, messenger bags, mousepads, water bottles, pet bowls, wall clocks, aprons, boxers, and, of course, �the classic thong� (Made in the USA!)�all printed with a photo of Dana Milbank and emblazoned with the line �THE DICK WHISPERER.� Again: what a proud, proud moment.



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3 comments:

  1. HootsbuddyJune 29, 2009 at 7:47 AM

    Okay. Color me obtuse.
    I give.
    What's the acronym?
    I don't find anything close at Urban Dictionary (but a Google search for "ysydctp" returns this post).

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  2. Steve HyndJune 29, 2009 at 8:47 AM

    (yes, skippy, you did coin that phrase)
    Blogger skippy was the first to use the word "Blogtopia" :-)
    Regards, Steve

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  3. HootsbuddyJune 29, 2009 at 10:25 AM

    Got it.
    I've been a bottom-feeder too long. Need to get out more.
    Paying attention in a group will help me keep my socks pulled up and spinach off my teeth.
    Thanks.

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