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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Monday, July 2, 2012

Hashtags of the day -- #ObamaOlympics & #RomneyOlympics

Gathered by John at the Twitter Hashbowl -- #ObamaOlympics...



  • Synchronized Whining 

  •  Where everyone gets a medal! Even if they don't deserve it. 

  • Future generation javelin catch 

  •  Synchronized Sea-level Reduction 

  •  free-fall personal wealth 

  •  Competitive dog eating 

  •  MSM Softball Toss 

  •  underwater homeowner relay 

  •  Gold Medal Redistribution Ceremony 

  •  Straw man hurdles 

  •  The Border Fence Vault 

  •  The Demagogthalon 

  •  Congressional Obstruction Hurdles 

  •  poll vaulting 

  •  Useful Idiot cake walk 

  •  Freestyle Coverups 

  •  Hot air balloon races 

  • Obama job dash: everyone lines up at the starting line, waits for 4 years. 

  •  Swimming in debt


And here are the #RomneyOlympics...



  • Pink Slip Writing 

  •  Hurdling... the poverty question 

  •  Long Distance Outsource 

  •  The 400 Mormon-Meter Dash 

  • Off-Shore Banking 

  •  Distracthlon 

  •  Finding Trees Just The Right Height 

  •  3000m Power Grab 

  •  Garage Elevator Races 

  •  Fencing... other people's companies 

  •  Flip Flop Fandango 

  •  Rowing... to Martha's Vineyard 

  •  Sailing... Through Life 

  •  The 100 yardworker self-deportation. 

  •  Transvaginal Probing 

  •  Border Fencing 

  • Herbert Hoover Relay Race

  • full contact Etch-a- Sketch 

  •  Greco-Roman Wrestling with Truth



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