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, December 22, 2010

So Pope Palpatine Wants to Repair the Church�s Image?

By BJ Bjornson

Say what you will about Pope Ratzi, he does give a guy good material.


Revelations of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church reached "an unimaginable dimension" in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said Monday to Vatican cardinals and bishops gathered for his traditional Christmas speech.

Benedict said the Catholic Church must reflect on what is wrong with its message � and with Christian life in general � that it allowed for the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests.


What�s wrong with the Church�s message that allowed for widespread sexual abuse of children? Well, just off the top of my head here, but maybe the fact that the Church hierarchy kept covering it up and moving the offending priests from parish to parish so they could traumatize whole new flocks again and again, along with the ongoing efforts to thwart law enforcement activities focused on catching and punishing said individuals and overall acting like the reputation of the Church was and is far more important than the lives these priests ruined is probably a good place to start looking for what is wrong with your �message�.

Oh, and comments like this don�t help much either.


"We know of the particular gravity of this sin committed by priests and our corresponding responsibility," Benedict told the prelates gathered in the frescoed Sala Regia of the Vatican's apostolic palace.

But he said the crimes of the priests also had to be looked at in the broader social context, in which child pornography and sexual tourism is rampant and to some degree considered normal, and where as recently as the 1970s pedophilia wasn't considered the absolute evil that it is today.


Get it? It isn�t like buggering little boys was really all that bad back when he was covering it up! Just because they claim to be the arbiters of morality doesn�t mean that you should expect them to know this was, like, really wrong! Hell, there are all sorts of folks doing it today, so clearly its not like their depravity is unusual or anything!



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