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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Saturday, June 12, 2010

I could watch this time and again

By Steve Hynd


TV? $350 Beer? $7 Watching endless repeats of the English goalie making an Elementary School mistake in front of the whole world? Priceless!





It used to be said that God was an Englishman. On the evidence today, if He isn't American then He's Scottish.



2 comments:

  1. John Cole suggested that Green should have started drinking immediately. At least it was the first game - perhaps most will forget by the time they go back to England.

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  2. Well, for fans who support one of the teams in a game the emotional investment always makes a difference. But for neutral observers the game was awful, France - Uruguay awful.
    This was only the first game for each team and no definitive damage has been done, but preliminary indications now are that even Fabio Capello may not be able to cure the English disease of bottling it up in big tournaments. And the risk Capello took with Ledley King seems to have bombed.
    I watched the game on Finnish TV and the commenters there, who are usually pretty anglophile, were so disappointed, they ended the program with the joke that it is in the next game when the two better teams of the group, Algeria and Slovenia, are going to play.

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