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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Sunday, July 19, 2009

General Rules

By Hootsbuddy

Michael Wade is a wise, circumspect man whose blog I have followed for some time. Always a quick read filled with gems like these. I'm no fan of forwarded emails, but this list should go viral. I especially like the last two.

1. People who give you a very short period of time to decide whether to buy what they are selling are trying to slip something past you.


2. It is a mistake to accord automatic trust to companies, unions, or governments.


3. Few scoundrels are unethical all the time.


4. Being able to spot weasel words is one of the most important skills in life.


5. Trusting your intuition that something is wrong is usually wiser than trusting your intuition that something is right.


6. Some highly educated people stopped learning twenty or more years ago.


7. The more you know about a news topic, the more you are disturbed by the reporting on the news topic.


8. Some of the most anti-American people you'll ever meet are Americans.

9. Always know the strongest arguments on both sides but don't assume that either side has a strong argument.


10. A test of knowledge is whether or not the person can explain the subject in plain language.


11. Beware of anyone who is cruel to subordinates.


12. It is better to have and not need than to need and not have.


13. The most articulate person is not necessarily the wisest but many people will believe that to be the case.


14. Celebrity is not the same as greatness.


15. Don't kid yourself: Experience matters.


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