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.
Bob Dylan had his 71st birthday a couple of days ago. In 1964 when he did The Times They are a-Changin they certainly were. Protests against the war in Vietnam were on the increase and the nations youth were protesting the status quo. It was free love, drugs and lots of wild electric guiter. Times have continued to change in the last 48 years - sometimes forward but more often than not in the wrong direction.
later -when it was even more obvious Vietnam was a bad war-- Dylan told an interviewer he wasn't still sure he was against it. then there was the JDL Arabophobe thing,never apologized for unless I missed it, etc.
later -when it was even more obvious Vietnam was a bad war-- Dylan told an interviewer he wasn't still sure he was against it.
ReplyDeletethen there was the JDL Arabophobe thing,never apologized for unless I missed it, etc.