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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I wonder if Obama suddenly realizes what a now win had he has dealt himself.
ReplyDeleteSteve following on some of your earlier notes, re: the costs of actually getting an Afghan army or police force up to snuff, TomDispatch has a note up by Ann Jones on the chances of really doing such.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175116/ann_jones_us_or_them_in_afghanistan_
All this is becoming increasingly disturbing.
Geoff, I read that piece earlier today and agree it makes disturbing reading. Siun at FDL has even scarier reading: McChrystal�s Power Play. Here's the thing - I don't believe McC is acting alone in challenging Obama, he has to have Saint Pet's backing. A first move in the 2012 dance, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteRegards, Steve