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, May 2, 2010

Quote Of The Day

Commentary By Ron Beasley



The quote of the day comes from John Cole:

Is anyone else noticing a trend here? Decades of onlsaught by
Republicans (and many Democrats, as well) and business friendly
interests have led to the complete inability or unwillingness of
government to regulate our food safety, our water, our financial
markets, our mines, and now, tragically, our offshore drilling programs.
And in every case, defanging the regulators has led to expensive
disasters. All so a select few can make more and more money.





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  1. geoffMay 2, 2010 at 2:17 PM

    Ron a nice article re regulation over at the Washington Monthly, the magazine, sort of summarizing Daniel Carpenter's new book, the title of which might put you off: "Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA". I suspect it should be the only bedside reading the Obama does given the importance of the financial reg legislation pending.
    Oh here's link to the Washington Monthly note: http://bit.ly/dyP7jj
    As an aside what caught my attention to the note was the picture on the front of Carpenter's book. Of whom is it? Why Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey from Cobble Hill B.C., of course. I knew what she looked like as a young woman as the 50th anniversary of the thalidomide has just passed & we here didn't have her any more. http://bit.ly/9e2UR0

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