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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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Memory and Accountability

Aimai looks at political memory as an accountability tool and counter to elite failure: 



I ended my other essay by observing that Klein thinks readers don't really read, and readers don't really remember. So Klein can say what he wants and be sure that no one will ever use his own words to impeach his argument. But that's not really the way the world works, anymore. Klein stalked off in a huff to soothe his ego. I went home to surf the internet and make sure of my facts before I blogged the interaction. I checked his blog�yes, he'd really exposed a private citizen to what he hoped would be internet harassment. I checked the Wiki �surprisingly restrained and well linked, no particular anti Klein slant. I even checked Conservipaedia (Alas, poor Klein, they knew him not). And, of course, I read backwards through Glenn's well cited and well linked oeuvre of Klein evisceration. The internet never forgets. And if we use it properly, it doesn't let us forget either.


Memory is powerful, especially when it is well documented.


He who controls the past, controls the future....



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