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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Monday, September 20, 2010

Q&A -- Brian Lamb Interviews Warren Brown

By John Ballard



Brian Lamb's Q&A conversation with Warren Brown is the latest in a long list of journalistic gems by this man.



Washington Post cars columnist Warren Brown has covered the auto industry for the Post since 1982. His weekly column is called �On Wheels,� and he hosts a live weekly web discussion on Washingtonpost.com called �Real Wheels Live.� He talked about the current financial standing and overall health status of the automotive industry. In 2008, he made controversial comments in support of government auto bailouts by crediting the automotive industry with assisting in the development of the African-American middle class. In 2002, Warren Brown co-wrote a book with fellow columnist Martha McNeil Hamilton, called Black and White and Red All Over: The Story of A Friendship, in which both writers discuss their friendship and her decision to give him one of her kidneys.



In an hour-long, wide ranging conversation they cover several subjects, not all relating to cars.
When I think of the millions of hours wasted watching commercial television or second-rate movies the ignorance of the voting public begins to make sense. This hour of C-SPAN, by contrast, is a thinking person's banana split. Consider this exchange...








I have an interest in medical issues so I grabbed this snip for this post. I never realized before that organs that fail to work are typically not removed as long as they aren't causing problems, even when replacement organs are put in to replace them. This guy refers to himself as a "four-packer."





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