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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Friday, June 12, 2009

Weekend Book Review - Sarum

By Ron Beasley


Sarum Some more fiction this week but once again it's educational fiction.  Sarum: The Novel Of England by Edward Rutherfurd is a well researched James Michener like novel that explores the history of England's Salisbury.  It traces the history of the area from the end of the last ice age through WWII through five fictional families.  Yes it's fiction, It's unlikely that the Mason who was responsible for the grand cathedral at Salisbury is a descendant of Nooma who built Stonehenge  but for the most part the history is accurate. 


The novel is divided into two parts:


(via Wikipedia because it's easier than doing it myself)


Old Sarum,



  • Journey to Sarum (prehistoric Britain)
  • The Barrow (the first foreign settlers arriving in Britain)
  • The Henge (the building of Stonehenge)
  • Sorviodunum (the arrival of the Romans)
  • Twilight (the fall of the Roman Empire/arrival of the Saxons)
  • The Two Rivers (arrival of the Vikings/uniting of England)
  • The Castle (Norman England)


New Sarum



The history of the United States begins with the history of England.  This novel is a painless way to understand that history.



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  1. The Pale ScotJune 13, 2009 at 5:48 AM

    I read that over a decade ago, it was interesting, amusing with who is breaking into cars at the end,

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