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.
From John's Twitter feed (Notice the number of retweets. There have been 16 between when I got the screen shot and put the post together. Information travels fast these days.) -- Article LINK
I'll keep my fingers crossed "for the people". The on again off again Obama crew though is looking more like a confused group of rats & even noted by Jennifer Rubin, who, of course, is really only worried about face saving amongst dictators, torturers, friendly thugs and the extremist in the place that must be obeyed i.e. "only democracy" - http://wapo.st/ikyovw.
If diplomacy is a poker game, it's hard to tell if we see "dithering" or keeping cards close to the vest. Every few days a new card is played and as every schoolboy knows interests and principles are often not congruent. When the dust settles we have no option but to deal with the winning results, like it or not. I like to think that the right language is being used regarding a multi-billion dollar bunch of carrots to influence the outcome in a way that pushes principles and interests in the same direction. Only time will tell.
I'll keep my fingers crossed "for the people". The on again off again Obama crew though is looking more like a confused group of rats & even noted by Jennifer Rubin, who, of course, is really only worried about face saving amongst dictators, torturers, friendly thugs and the extremist in the place that must be obeyed i.e. "only democracy" - http://wapo.st/ikyovw.
ReplyDeleteIf diplomacy is a poker game, it's hard to tell if we see "dithering" or keeping cards close to the vest. Every few days a new card is played and as every schoolboy knows interests and principles are often not congruent. When the dust settles we have no option but to deal with the winning results, like it or not. I like to think that the right language is being used regarding a multi-billion dollar bunch of carrots to influence the outcome in a way that pushes principles and interests in the same direction. Only time will tell.
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