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, May 6, 2010

How embarrassing

By Dave Anderson:

I've been keeping an eye on the BBC coverage of the British elections and besides being blown away by the clarity and the non-breathlessness of the reporting of the obvious, their website has been extremely useful.  I just took this screen capture a few minutes ago, and my only thought is will the defeated Conservative MP ever live his/her loss down as the only Conservative MP to lose during a very good night where it looks like the Conservatives get either a straight majority, or a simple coalition with the Irish Protestant parties?


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How embarrassing to be the only loser of the night.   



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  1. wufnikMay 7, 2010 at 1:54 AM

    Not to worry--it's up to three now. And it's a genuine hung parliament--probably the only way for a conservative majority government at this point is an alliance with the Lib Dems (which itself is probably not likely given the opposition of much of the Tory party to the Lib Dem's chief demand of proportional representation). It's unlikely that the price of some Scottish minority party--no cuts to Scotland--will be palatable to MPs from England and Wales.

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  2. SRW1May 7, 2010 at 5:24 AM

    Well, by now it's up to four. And according to the oddsmaker Ladbrokes, two of those four losses actually were expected.

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