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 12, 2009

Quote Of The Day

By Ron Beasley


The quote of the day comes from commenter RW on this by Yglesis. He's talking about Megan McArdle:



She�s really the next George Will, able to put a faux-intellectual lipstick on what is ultimately a shallow pig. The Democratic party in particular would be much better off if they could learn the same skills. Blunt intellectualism offends a lot of Americans, who are generally suspicious of overly articulate, intelligent people, and we�d all be better off if we could do a bit better at playing dumb, but looking smart while we do it.


He's right you know. Here in the US of A ignorance has become a virtue hence the popularity of Sarah Palin.



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  1. geoffJuly 12, 2009 at 11:47 PM

    Nice long piece in Vanity Fair about Palin:
    http://bit.ly/tavBE
    though I'm not sure it adds much to what is already known or suspected. Isn't she really the past. I know Frank Rick is nervous she may have a Nixon type reborn but aren't USAs demographics shifting quite quickly under what's left of the GOPs feet and doesn't that mean Lincoln and Teddy's party has ... . Oops I'm just imagining it getting worse.

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