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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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

By John Ballard


One of the most deserving Nobel laureates of our generation officially accepts her prize twenty-one years after it was awarded. Of course the entire program is available, but this short segment will serve as a sample. Someone who has waited two decades for this moment deserves at least a few minutes of our time to hear what she has to say. For me this woman is the personification of grace and beauty. 


Link here to the text of her remarks. 




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2 comments:

  1. Bill HJune 16, 2012 at 5:46 PM

    Not to mention courage. I have thought for some years that this lady is what the human race should aspire to be.

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  2. used cat partsJune 22, 2012 at 2:48 AM

    In addition to bravery. I have thought for some years that this lady is what mankind should want to be.

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