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 20, 2010

Quote Of The Day

Commentary By Ron Beasley



The last 40 years of American politics haven�t been destroyed by a bunch
of dumb, racist crackers, they�ve been destroyed by cynical
conservatives who were all too willing to manipulate dumb, racist
crackers for political gain.

~Doug J, Balloon Juice



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  1. KatMay 20, 2010 at 7:44 PM

    Those Balloon Juice guys certainly do have a way with words.
    I was partial to this post, myself:
    Are you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?
    by DougJ
    I don�t hate Reason as much as John does, but their unbelievably self-congratulatory, faux-courageous �Draw Mohammed Day� was truly one of the most gutless things I have ever seen in my life. The three winning pictures all look as though they were chosen specifically so as to avoid inflaming radical Muslim sensibilities (one is a beach, one is a play on Magritte, another is dots with a face).
    If these losers had the guts to face down a possible fatwa, I might have some respect for them. But it�s far braver, I�m sure, to strut around in leather jackets, write paeans to heat-packing tea-baggers, and pretend you�re sticking it to Al Qaeda with allusions to French surrealist art, just the way John Galt and Howard Roark did, all on the Koch family�s dime.
    Grow a pair, fellas, or shut the hell up.

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