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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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Eyjafjallaj�l - You're doing it wrong!

By John Ballard







H/T Political Carnival
Happy Monday!
Let's hope the rest of the week gets better...
Comments at You Tube...








  • Hey BJORK! Turn off that volcano... What's the name? There are thousands of travelers stuck in the middle of nowhere waiting for the nameless mountain to stop spewing lava!




  • Icelandic words look like they were made up by a bunch of five year olds! I mean honestly !! Look at the way they spell the name of this volcano!



  • ...or you can just translate it to Isle Mountains Glacier :)



  • Fjandinn burt ���rsed fantur. Allt sem ��ur gert er a�ogle Wikipedia



  • Well of course they can't pronounce it, who the hell could unless you're from Iceland?



  • Ejaculafulull... Oh I even don't want to try :P



  • first they take our cash and then they just bring back ash!



  • is it the name cuz he ejaculates much ashes?



  • We, the world, should not let Icelanders name anything ... anymore .. and that final.









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  1. BJ BjornsonApril 19, 2010 at 12:55 AM

    My favourite comment so far though has to be the following:
    "I'm having a hard time this morning saying much of anything, but damn, this name: "Eyjafjallaj�l" is like speaking Hungarian while coughing up a basketball size hairball on catnip. Can we please just call it Bob?"

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