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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Monday, October 5, 2009

Jesus needs a shave and a haircut

By BJ Bjornson 


I suppose you have to file this one under the �truth is funnier than parody� column. The makers of Conservapedia, whose mission has been to offset the well-known liberal bias of Wikipedia, (and also most everything else in the real world), have noticed that the founding document of Christianity reads like it was written by some long-haired hippy dude and have decided to correct the oversight. 

Their examples of this liberal bias are quite instructive. The first posits that Jesus asking his father to forgive his persecutors might be a liberal corruption of the original. After all, if that Jesus fellow was really into forgiveness, how would you go about justifying all that vengeance, smiting of foes, and capital punishment? 

I�m going to go out on a limb here and guess that there aren�t a lot of red-letter Christians in conservapedia circles. 

Under the advantages of this project:

this would debunk the pervasive and hurtful myth that Jesus would be a political liberal today



Yup. No way that a guy who went around offering free health care to the sick, spoke of compassion and forgiveness, and had some mean things to say about rich men�s chances of getting into heaven, (all clearly examples of blatant liberal tampering with the text), would have anything in common with the liberals of today. 

At least, he won�t when they�re through �re-translating� what it was he said.


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  1. Ron BeasleyOctober 5, 2009 at 12:09 PM

    Well the Church already gave Jesus blue eyes and light hair several hundred years ago, even though he probably looked a lot like a Palestinian, so why not a few more upgrades.

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  2. andersonOctober 6, 2009 at 1:04 AM

    Conservapedia appears to be at least temporarily, blessedly dead:
    Server not found
    Firefox can't find the server at www.conservapedia.com.
    Hooray!

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