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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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Going Rogue - with epigraphs

By Ron Beasley



DaveNoon at Lawyers, Guns and Money is reading Going Rogue so we don't have too.  Now I'm not really interested in even reading about the book but I found this amusing.

I realize this is a pedantic complaint, but would it be possible for Sarah Palin to launch her chapters with epigraphs that aren't of dubious origin?



[.....]



So far as bungled epigraphs go, the third chapter is arguably the
winner so far, attributing this nugget of wisdom to the renowned former
UCLA basketball coach John Wooden:



Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we
remember on our land. We remember than our grandfathers paid for it --
with their lives.





Now, if that's not the sort of thing you'd expect a hall of fame
basketball coach to say, that's because, of course, he didn't. Students
of American Indian history might recognize that passage as belonging
instead to John Wooden Legs, the post-WWII Northern Cheyenne tribal leader who -- though a contemporary of John Wooden's -- was not the same guy.

Yes,
yes -- it's absurd to expect much from Sarah Palin, but imagine if
these sorts of gaffes had appeared in books by Hillary Clinton or Obama
himself.





Now most of the people who buy Palin's book won't read it or any other for that matter.  It's what I call a trophy book - proudly displayed next to the literary gems from O'Rielly, Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh but never opened unless there are pictures. 



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