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, December 23, 2009

Ditto to Sadly No

By Dave Anderson:

I was about to write a long post on my grudging support for healthcare reform, but Sadly No encapsulated my thoughts in this wonderful graphic:

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It is a significant but insufficient improvement over the status quo, and it is a fail compared to progressive aspirational goals, but it is the best whack that can be taken as this problem for the next fifteen years. 



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  1. how sucky is thatDecember 23, 2009 at 10:45 AM

    ...but it is the best whack that can be taken as this problem for the next fifteen years.
    and that about sums up why the usa sucks so bad(ly) and is heading straight down the shitter.
    a country completely captured by the people on wall street. completely.
    all done in by greed.

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  2. Ian WelshDecember 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM

    I'm afraid I'm on the side that says it is worse than the status quo. The excise tax will steadily degrade coverage since it isn't indexed, and the mandate with sufficient subsidies will not provide insurance, but only forced customers to insurance companies who cannot afford to use their insurance and in many marginal cases will be driven into bankruptcy.
    We'll see how it plays out, but I'm pretty confident on this one.

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  3. ToeDecember 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM

    Congratulations anyway. It is a beginning. The 'small undeveloped' countries screwed up the Big Players at Copenhagen eh. So I see this as a plus for Americans, no matter where it starts. Keep on!

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