Posted on 01/03/2002 3:12:08 PM PST by Mercuria
TONIGHT...
...put the blasted Rose Bowl game on MUTE for a while and join AnnaZ and Mercuria for A Very Unspun New Year!!
Our guest line-up includes:
Heidi Maher - If you haven't been reading about her husband Ted, who has now been imprisoned in Monaco for two years under the most suspicious circumstances, click HERE and bone up before the show!
David Keene - Chairman of the American Conservative Union, who will be talking about the upcoming CPAC shindig!
Sean Finnegan - columnist for Mercurial Times and Sierra Times, who will be rapping with us about Klamath, issues of freedom, and what it's like to work in Mercuria's on-line scribbler sweat shop!
That's TONIGHT - JANUARY 3, 2002, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. PST - on UNSPUN WITH AnnaZ!!
Wanna tune in? Just mash HERE for The Other Radio Network schedule, and click on the Radio Free Republic logo!!!
We will be taking calls (but don't even bother trying while we have a guest on the air)...
1-866-RADIOFR!!!
Dunno ... ask Freedomwins, er, VinnyTex.
About natural resource issues: it's not advocating species suicide to point out that an absolutist advocacy of triumphalist materialism is inadequate as a conservative paradigm. If conservatism is about restraint -- social, moral, political, cultural, and the rest -- it must recognise that unrestricted consumerism is a trap, and that prosperity alone is of no value if it becomes not our servant but our master.
From the strictly Christian point of view, it is the fall of Adam that turns man into a predator who no longer perceives creation as something directed to the praise of God. Instead, it is good only for self-worship. Suicide of the species will not come from insufficient prosperity; if it comes it will be from a disordered and disintegrating quest for posessions and pleasure that make man a servant of his appetites, rather than someone freed in the Resurrection that redeems not only humanity but all created matter.
This is not to suggest that all men are called to poverty, but it does argue for an ethic of economy and decent self-restraint, according to which material posessions are good only so long as they constitute a Eucharist -- a thankgiving -- not as man's due for his own self-earned justification -- and only so long as they tend to human solidarity, and not alienation.
There was no Rose Bowl this year. humph
At its best, the Florentine aesthetic echoed the balance and truthfulness of classicism, but in a human and Christian context, in which the figures and through them the viewer, are rooted in a cosmic order that's serene without being simplistic. Restraint in art is thus a manifestation of restraint in life -- not out of joyless hatred for the created world, but out of joy in considered contemplation of the incalculable value of every particle of creation.
Still ROTFLMAO!
(Next week...a DEFINITE Two-Minutes-For-Two-Cents-Worth...I've still a bit of heartburn from Twinkie creme filling...hehehehe.)
We have to get a weekly show, because there were so many things I was just DYING to say.
How about One-Hour-For-One-Buck? **G**
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