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, July 31, 2010

Message to a Carbuncle

by anderson

You are not useless Andrew. You are, at one and the same time, better
than, exactly equal to, and worse than useless. Many may wonder what
genuinely useful societal function you perform, Andrew. None is overtly
or remotely apparent, save one.

A carbuncle is useful only insofar as it indicates infection. Once you know that, the pain is just fucking annoying.

And
that is you, Andrew Breibart. You are merely the swollen angry abscess
telling society that something is wrong in the American body politic.
You are symptomatic of a cynical and hidebound political infection. So,
for that you are somewhat useful. But, not really.

We already
knew that the country had a deeply-seated racial, politically cynical
infection. Big time. Which means that you, Andrew Breitbart, are pretty
much useless.

Except, you're not. You're worse than useless.
You hurt. In a quite specific place. Curing that underlying infection,
which gives rise to painful carbuncles such as yourself, is not on
everyone's political agenda. And there you are, throbbing away as the
underlying infection senses election season.

Rightly, it is your
angry bloated self and your worse than useless, divisive poisonous ilk
who foist your, and their, schismatic, race baiting lies upon society,
whom society ought to have cast to the dour tent cities of Los Angeles,
and Chicago, and St. Louis, or to have doomed to wander shattered,
aimless, homeless roads, while unfortunate yahoo mishap abandons you to
an anonymous, rat infested, shit strewn ditch, bleeding, fading, ...
where until, finally, a blessed Mother Nature and her precious earth
judiciously rend asunder your corrupted agglomeration of molecules and
employ them in genuinely useful enterprise.

But no. As we know,
and in direct abeyance of the corporeal efficiencies of sweet Mother
Nature, this just society has been held back by a connivance, a
connivance of power and money. It is that openly growing societal
infection by which worse than useless sores like you, Andrew, are not
hence rendered into more useful enterprise.

Too often, good
people wind up in grim and dire societal straits, people who believed
that honest work and doing right was the way to make it. The "system,"
as they call it. Saps, as you surely see them. These are some of the
folks living in cars, and tents, while an infected political calculus
churns out racist bile, and raises to high red anger and mild celebrity,
you, Andrew Breibart. There you are. Looking fat and angry and sassy.
Doing quite well, it would seem. You're on television, and people are
talking about you. Well taken care of. No just tent in sight.



4 comments:

  1. Reminds me of the saying that no person is ever truly useless. At a minimum, even the most useless person can always serve as an example to others of just how useless somebody can be.

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  2. Wow! Just wow. That was a truly righteous and justified laceration of that putz. Well done!

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