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, July 15, 2011

Conservatives/Libertarians are Teenagers

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Remember when the government mandated low flow toilets?  The conservatives went on a crazy rant - how dare the government mandate toilets?  Of course in addition to saving water they also saved the consumer a lot of money.  When I replaced both my toilets a few years ago my pay back was less than a year thanks to reduced water and sewer bills and I have been saving money ever since.  Now they are indignant over CFL bulbs.  The old tungsten bulbs always created more heat than light so they were inefficient.  They cut down the electric bill and last longer, although I will admit they don't always last as long as advertised.  But they still save the consumer money.  But the Teabilly House voted today to undo a Bush era regulation that phases out the inefficient tungsten bulbs. 


I had the privilege of raising two teenage sons.  They both had one thing in common during the teenage years - they didn't like anyone telling them what to do.  Conservatives and Libertarians are teenagers.  Even if it makes sense if someone tells you to do it resist. 



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  1. LexJuly 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM

    Well put on the teenager mentality.
    I'm not a fan of the CFL, mostly because they tend to put out terrible quality light and don't last nearly as long as advertised. The issue of mercury and much more manufacturing bugs me too. I'm not cheap with lightbulbs, so the cost doesn't upset me...i'll pay $7/bulb for a Verilux, full-spectrum incandescent. Or i did anyhow, four years ago it went into the most used lamp in the house and it's still going strong. (and renders color appropriately too)
    I'm much more interested in LED lightbulbs, and they're getting cheap enough to start converting.

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