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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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Bush on Wingnut Welfare

By Dave Anderson:

George W. Bush is exactly the person you want to speak to your staff on the topics of setting tough goals and then accomplishing them.  After all, he had such great success as President invading two countries. seeing a US city drown, almost wrecking Social Security so it would embrace the worst elements of systemic risk just as a massive systemic risk crisis was about to go down, and see nothing wrong in the housing or credit markets. 

Unfortunately for George W. Bush, very few people want to talk to him.  A couple of Canadian oil-men were willing to pay him to speak, but that is about it so far.  So he has been down on his luck for a bit and needs some income support.  And he found wingnut welfare of the lowest and most shameful type; the motivational speaking arena tour. 

Right now it is just a few guest gigs in Texas, but if bookings for his ramblings don't pick up, the Bushies might have a VH-1reality series next season as they go on the road. 



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  1. Russ WellenOctober 21, 2009 at 2:41 AM

    The reality series would have to be on the road. At home in Dallas it would be too boring. With the girls out of the house, George and Laura might say five words to each other all day.

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