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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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Wahoo New Hampshire

By Fester:

New Hampshire is catching up with its neighbors.  Now Rhode Island just has to get on board for New England to not officially care which consenting and non-related adults fall in love with each other. 

Via the Boston Globe:

Gay marriage legislation gained momentum today in New Hampshire,
with the passage of a revised bill by both the state House and Senate.



Governor John Lynch is expected to sign the bill into law later
today, which would make New Hampshire the sixth state to allow gays to
marry.

The changes in the bill were language clarifications that religious institutions and clergy were not required to perform marriages that they disagree with.  I really don't see the pragmatic value as the aura of not being wanted would, in my mind, make any couple who wanted to get married by a disapproving clergy member seek out another officiant.  However, if that is the strongest objection and the only decisive potential roadblock, I'm all for that language to assuage  most likely unrealized or seldom realized fears. 

Go New Hampshire.....



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