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, December 14, 2009

Holiday Season Posting

Dear Readers,


It's that time of year again, the time where just about every religion ever under the sun decided to declare a Winter Solstice holiday of some description. We intend to take a bit of a break ourselves. For example, I just realised yesterday that I've not had a proper "blog holiday" in three years, posting just about every day since then and usually more than once. Dave, Ron and John are all pretty much 7 days a week bloggers too. After some indeterminate period of time you need a break otherwise fun becomes a chore, and that's what leads to people deciding to quit blogging.


Accordingly, from now until the New Years, posting is likely to be lighter than usual and a bit haphazard as we all take an opportunity to recharge our batteries. Keep checking back though, there'll be new content most every day. Our regular service will resume on 3rd January 2010.


And have a great holiday yourselves, however you celebrate it.


Warmest regards, Steve Hynd



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