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, May 28, 2010

Goodbye Mercury

Commentary By Ron Beasley





MercGirl Now I may not miss Mercury the car but I will miss Jill Wagner, the Mercury Girl.  My father's first new car was a Mercury but that was in the early 50s.  Mercury has been little but a Ford with a different grill for years and other than the lovely Jill there is probably no reason for Mercury to exist.  Just another sign that our automobile centered society is coming to a close.  It goes the way of Plymouth, another family favorite.  So say goodbye to Mercury - times they are a changing.



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  1. geoffMay 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM

    Sorry Ron I was never a Ford person. When we did have a car they were always Chryslers - Plymouths etc looked like land whales & my da stuck his old RCAF great coat over the engine during winter to keep it warm for starting in the morning, ah the miserable old days eh. Me, an ex-GM apprentice, I was upset GM ditched Pontiac such a great and honourable name not now to be seen on the highways.

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  2. anna missedMay 28, 2010 at 9:12 PM

    My favorite as a little kid was the 1954 Mercury - especially http://image.customrodder.com/f/26689048/0704cr_05_z+0704cr_1954_mercury_monterey+classic_rear_bumper.jpg>that fine rear end.

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  3. anna missedMay 28, 2010 at 9:22 PM

    have no idea why the link doesn't work, works ok as copy&paste???

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  4. John BallardMay 28, 2010 at 9:49 PM

    Try this.
    http://bit.ly/9N6E1S

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