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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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Partisan Motivation

By Dave Anderson:

My family is a Democratic base family: secular, union, well educated and liberal.  Some days I think I am either the median member of the family, or to the right of the median member of the family.  My younger sister lives in Greater Boston and is a Democratic base super-voter; she votes before the senior centers are bused in. 

This is the text message she sent me this morning:

Dude, just voted, for the party not the candidate; Scott Brown is a douchebag.

That is a severe motivation problem right there. 



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  1. ColleenJanuary 19, 2010 at 7:03 AM

    It was enough of a motivation to get me to turn off last night's Conan monologue. Which is saying something. Also, completely unofficial polling at the office: most of my coworkers kind of feel the way I do. Coakley is entirely unimpressive as a candidate, but the Democratic agenda is too important to risk it. Most of my friends and colleagues are voting today. Hopefully she makes it, then we can start looking for someone better qualified for 2012.

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