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, June 3, 2011

The good die young!

Commentary By Ron Beasley


One of the smartest bloggers around, Jack Grant, has died at 46.  I can't really improve on Joe's post so I won't even try.  I knew Jack in a cyber/virtual sort of way - we shared emails, had a couple of phone calls and I did some guest posting at his blog Random Fate.  Jack had a great mind but we hadn't really seen that mind for the last couple of years as Jack tried to fight through some professional and personal problems. 


Like me Jack was in the world of Hi-Tech which even if you were smart was always a roller coaster.  Things were always changing and you had to constantly re-invent yourself to keep up.  When the hi-tech center of the universe moved to Asia not even re-inventing yourself would work.  That roller coaster also had an impact on personal relationships.  Stress Kills!



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  1. geoffJune 3, 2011 at 2:57 PM

    I didn't know him Ron but 46 is too early to die so hope his family can handle the shock. He must have just been hitting his prime.

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