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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Friday, December 31, 2010

Best Name For Sarah Palin Yet

Commentary By Ron Beasley


The best name for Sarah Palin comes from comes from commentor Jim C on this post on TPM about Joe Miller's better late than never concession.  It's Bible Spice.



Wow Joe! You were deemed too nutty by the voters of the state that elected Bible Spice to be their governor. That's an amazing accomplishment. We all look forward to your next trick.



For those of you who may not remember the Spice Girls you can check it out here.



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6 comments:

  1. geoffDecember 31, 2010 at 1:23 PM

    You guys are far too hard on your next POTUS. Think of the comedy multiplier effect that Spice Bible could have and if everyone is laughing - I know we'll all be laughing at you but you can ignore that and just chant USA to drown out the snickering - hard to go to war or do other really stupid things. Hey given the current vacuous opportunist with the modified ghetto strut, aka Obama, a nut from what passes as a large city in the pretend Arctic might be a treat.
    Anyway Happy News Year to you Ron et all Newshooggers'. You guys & gals (?) still my first look at the world every morning.

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  2. MattDecember 31, 2010 at 2:42 PM

    Don't forget her sister-joined-at-the-teabag, Chastity Spice (aka Christine O'Donnell).

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  3. Ron BeasleyDecember 31, 2010 at 4:12 PM

    geoff
    Sarah Palin has no interest in being President - all she seeks is fame and fortune. If the oligarchs that control the Republican party thought she had a chance to get the nomination they would arrange for her to be gored by a caribou or mauled by a grizzly on her reality TV show. Sarah can have the fame and fortune as long as her cultists see her as a candidate. When she is denied the nomination she can claim to be a victim and her cultists will rally behind her by buying her ghost written books and watching her on the TV - the fame and fortune continues without the hard work.

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  4. HyperIonJanuary 1, 2011 at 9:57 AM

    TBogg was calling her Bible Spice two years ago.

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  5. Ron BeasleyJanuary 1, 2011 at 5:16 PM

    HyperIon
    I missed TBogg's usage and I apologize. I am sensitive to that sort of thing because I was the first one to use American Taliban to describe the religious right many years ago at my old blog.

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  6. HyperIonJanuary 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM

    Mr. Beasley,
    I mentioned it only because it is such an awesome moniker.
    Like American Taliban.
    Congrats on coining that one...

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