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, October 2, 2009

We must be doing something right

Commentary By Ron Beasley

Here at Newhoggers we must be doing something right - the highwingnuts at American Power really hate us.

And naturally, that's just one example. As I often point out, Newshoggers
cheered when al Qaeda in Iraq started using female Down syndrome
suicide bombers to kill and maim American troops and Iraqi civilians.
That was a "brilliant tactical adaptation." It's no coincidence that
right now the top post at Newshoggers claims that "the Afghan election was always going to be a McChrystalization of all that's wrong with the occupation."


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4 comments:

  1. SRW1October 2, 2009 at 4:57 PM

    No bagde of honor shines as brightly as being reviled by the right type of people.

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  2. geoffOctober 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM

    I clicked over to the site you'd linked to Ron. Now I know I'm living a sheltered life. The site is not the "right", unless that is defined differently from the rest-of-world, it's just plain old hate disguised as coherence and that can be on either side of the left/right spectrum. I'm going back into me shelter with my blankie and a good bottle of bourbon.

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  3. Ron BeasleyOctober 3, 2009 at 3:49 AM

    You are right geoff - it's not so much "right" as psychopathic.

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  4. Steve HyndOctober 3, 2009 at 5:39 AM

    The Donald would be better to spend the time he uses blogging in going to therapy instead.
    Regards, Steve

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