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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Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Other Shoe?

By Fester:


Treat the following as rumor only, but this would explain quite a few things without melting Occam's Razor:


From the Immoral Minority, an Alaskan political blog:



Earlier this week one of my best sources claimed to have explosive new information for me.

It took all week for us to finally get together, but last night we finally sat down for an amazing conversation. And what I heard made my jaw drop.

According to my source Sarah is finished with Todd and has decided to end their marriage.


Quitting a potentially high stress job while going through a high stress personal situation makes plenty of sense if one has the money to not have to work.  This would explain quite a few things without invoking 11 dimensional chess explanations. 



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2 comments:

  1. Russ WellenAugust 2, 2009 at 5:24 AM

    This may be jumping the gun, but I have an idea for a fun, traffic-generating post: Let's play matchmaker and help Sarah Palin find a new husband! God knows, with all those kids she's gonna need one. Let's come up with a list of candidates.
    Anyone care to jump on it, go ahead. But be creative. Think Cindy Sheehan and Lew Rockwell.

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  2. malcontentAugust 3, 2009 at 4:49 AM

    Verizon flags this linked story as SPAM and does not allow it to be forwarded as an email linky.
    FYI

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