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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Classic! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSomeone who has actually lived the life she saw for herself at high school graduation - a refreshing exception. I graduated from a middle/upper middle class high school in 1964. Most of us thought we could change the world but most of us really didn't try. Some of my classmates died in Vietnam. One was killed in the Yom Kippur war. After four years of war protesting in college I ended up working for the DIA after graduation to avoid being canon fodder in Vietnam. A short stint as a dirty fucking hippy after the DIA morphed into a life in the corporate world after I had the responsibility of a wife and children. Alcohol became my drug of choice after drug tests and yes I did like flying in corporate jets. I only found my DFH roots once again when my corporate masters decided they would be better off having someone in China doing my job. I guess that makes me a bitter hypocrite which is what makes me appreciate Rachel Maddow even more. She stuck to her convictions.
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