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 14, 2009

The Dude

by Eric Martin


After what were 30+ hours of grueling labor (for me mostly, though my wife seemed to be in some type of pain as well - I'll have to check back with her on that), Eric Jae-Young Lee Martin finally decided to join us on Saturday, October 10th at 11:36 a.m. 


In addition to taking his time once the whole show got under way, my son also decided that the fact that dad had tickets to Friday night's Yankee playoff game was entirely beside the point.  Luckily, my good friend Steve (who benefitted from my son's irregular sense of timing) was kind enough to phone me after what was one of the more dramatic playoff wins for the Yanks in a while to let me know that Mark Teixeira's game-winning, 11th inning, walk-off home runs landed 5 rows in front of my his seats.


Still, I think it's clear I came out the winner.  I believe he calls this look "Velvet Steel" but it's hard to make out his words as he tends to mumble. 






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4 comments:

  1. LibbyOctober 14, 2009 at 8:41 AM

    Oh, he's just gorgeous. Congrats.

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  2. emptyOctober 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM

    Treasure those peaceful moments :) Congratulations!

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  3. KevinHaydenOctober 14, 2009 at 2:39 PM

    Congrats, Eric! He's cuter than Derek Jeter. (And dude, it's normal for your nipples to be a little raw now...)

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  4. rustedOctober 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM

    as Dave/Fester's dad.. congrats to all concern and enjoy

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