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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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Happy Dancing

By Dave Anderson:


As everyone knows by now, a judge (appointed by a Republican) ruled that Proposition 8 in California is unconstitutional and that legislation aimed against gays and lesbians should be judged with strict scrutiny but Prop 8 supporters failed at the much lower level rational scrutiny level to advance a case.

Woohoo. 

This does not mean some of my good friends and football watching buddies will be flying out to California, driving to Windsor, Ontario or taking Greyhound to Massachusetts tomorrow to marry their significant others of five to ten years, but it means that my good friends are being slightly less fucked over for the basic fact of being themselves.

 Time to do a quick happy dance, even if the order is mostly likely stayed until the 9th Circuit can do its business and the Supremes can touch this in 2012 or 2013. I hope the conservatives are actually true to their logic in both Romer and Lawrence. 

 



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