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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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Civil Disobedience for Arizona

By Dave Anderson:



The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat has a few intriguing thoughts on the new Arizona policy regime.  My only change is to use New York City as the source of decoys (cheaper airfare):

But, there's only one way to fight this kind of stupidity: massive performance art. 

I propose relocating the entire population of Puerto Rico to Arizona. Remember, Puerto Ricans, as citizens of a U.S. Territory, are citizens of the United States... even though they're brownish and speak some crazy fast moon people language. That's almost 4,000,000 (well, not "immigrants" and certainly not "illegal"... so "migrants" or "commuters", I suppose) to perplex and confound state police. 

Trust me: I have deep suspicions that the average cop in Arizona knows that there's a *West* Virginia. "Puerto Rico" will blow their minds. 

As part of Phase II of the plan, I'll start importing Canadians from October-March, returning them when the Great White tundra thaws out. That's right: illegal white people, legal brown people. 






4 comments:

  1. I'll put up with damn Canadians for a little while but there is a limit, isn't there?
    (Northern MN) Earl

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  2. Last I checked, Phase II of his plan is already in effect, with several of my retired relatives taking part on an annual basis. Though with the dollar back up to par, the winter exodus could grow even larger, I suppose.

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  3. But do they leave their papers in a locker at the airport or at least sneak over the Montana-Alberta border at any one of the many unguarded and unmanned crossing points using their Lexis Pass? :)

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  4. Can't be certain Dave, though given the fifth-wheels and motorhomes, they're probably not being too sneaky when they cross the border. Granted, most of my own experience in sneaking across the border involved trying to get duty-free booze back the other way. :)

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