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, September 8, 2010

Depressing Quote of the Day

Commentary By Ron Beasley



Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone.

If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.



Bob Dylan wrote The Times They Are A Changin in 1964. And how did they change?  This quote of the day from John Cole makes it obvious they did not change for the better.

The My Lai documentary was excellent, although very depressing.
About half way through, I realized, that if the My Lai massacre happened
today, no one would even react. Hell, as it is, we kill 90 people at a
time with predator strikes (1/6th the death toll at My Lai), and no one
even blinks.

Not to mention, Sarah Palin would probably go on Facebook and attack
the people who uncovered any similar massacre as America hating troop
bashers, and then David Gregory would ask his Sunday morning roundtable
of Bill Kristol, Krauthammer, Haley Barbour, Newt Gingrich, and John
McCain if Sarah Palin was right.



Depressing but I'm afraid it's spot on!



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