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, May 11, 2010

Gulf Oil Spill: How Everyone Can Help

By Kat


How can human hair mop up the oil spill? (BBC)


We all get it. We shampoo because hair collects oil.



GULF OIL SPILL - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP


Why should millions of pounds of absorbant, natural, renewable fiber go to waste every day?


Anyone and Everyone: salons, groomers, wool farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, waste wool... clippings, as well as nylons (panty hose) and funding for our Hair for Oil Spills program.


Our Excess Access program SIGN UP is FREE, FAST and HELPS us to coordinate the masses of donations going to the Gulf. More info


A delivery address in the Gulf will be emailed to you. We're not posting warehouse addresses on the web, because we're coordinating how much goes where. All along the Gulf Coast new harbor depots are being temporarily donated to this cause. We're doing this in WAVES (WAVE 9 begins May 11) due to the unprecedented surge of donors signing up every hour! They're coming in from all over the US as well as Canada, UK, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Austrailia...! It's an international philanthropic community phenomenon!


CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO DONATE NYLONS & HAIR / FUR / WOOL...


Hundreds of thousands of pounds of hair and nylons are coming in now by UPS, FED EX, USPS (we're getting our own zip codes now) as well as donated trucking, from every State in the US and from Canada, UK, France, Spain, Germany, Brazil..! Everyone wants to make this happen! If you live in the Northern hemisphere, now's a great time to take your dogs to the groomer for that 'summer clip' they love so much. Send in those clippings to save the Gulf instead of vacuuming shedding fur all summer!


More info - including links to a YouTube video, photos, and instructions - at MatterOfTrust.org.


And here's the NYT: People, and Poodles, Contributing to Cleanup



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5 comments:

  1. Patrick HasburghMay 12, 2010 at 12:23 AM

    Is this a joke? At the rate the baby boomers are going bald we could have this spill sopped up in a week.

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  2. joebobMay 12, 2010 at 4:45 AM

    Headline taken straight from The Onion? This can't be real.

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  3. John BallardMay 12, 2010 at 8:38 AM

    I saw a feature about this on one of the national TV evening news broadcasts. A Google search returns several links.
    These two comments reveal a degree of cynicism and narrow imagination than anything else. If I recall correctly, the feature I watched was aimed at letting children know that although they may feel helpless there is still something they can do to participate in ameliorating the mess in the Gulf. It is a very empowering message for children.
    Too bad more adults can't catch on.

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  4. KatMay 12, 2010 at 11:49 PM

    This story is not a joke. There are numerous news articles from all over the country about people collecting hair and fur to send to the Gulf.
    Alpaca fur sent to soak up oil

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  5. KatMay 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM

    Forgot the quote:
    "...an astonishing six tons of alpaca hair is on its way from South Florida."

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