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, September 4, 2009

Heck-uva job

By Dave Anderson


Heck-uva job for a Bushie, as Political Wire reports that a noted anti-scholar will be in charge of the Bush Library:




Former President Bush hired James K. Glassman, a longtime journalist and former administration official, to be executive director of his new "action-oriented think tank," the New York Times reports....


 


 the institute Mr. Bush envisions will become his main organizational vehicle for continuing to participate in public life and trying to shape his legacy." 


Glassman is perhaps best known as the co-author of Dow 36,000 in which he urged people to buy stocks because they were dramatically undervalued. The book came out in October, 1999 just months before the Internet bubble crashed.


What does it take to become unemployable at a high level in this country?  Really, besides drowing a city and forgetting everything you ever knew in front of Congress, what does it take to be a difficult hire?


 



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