A "nasty" climate and an obsession with The Price is Right

My oh my, dear reader, I'm sorry. I go through such intense and extended periods of not being able to write. It's not because I don't have anything to say; I just get so busy, then exhausted, that I can't be bothered to research and write a blog entry. I guess the problem is, I take this blog too seriously. I'm just as incapable of writing a Facebook- or Twitter-style throwaway entry as I am a detailed entry during times when I have so much else to do. At the risk of sounding like a conceited twit, my writing is my art. If an artist doesn't have it in him to produce something, he simply doesn't. Well, that's me in a nutshell. I'm going to try to correct the glaringly obvious lack of production over the coming week with entries on subjects I wanted to discuss previously, and then actually get down to the business of not walking away from this page for more than a month at a time. Shameful, dragon, just shameful ...
So, to break back into the art of writing here, I will relate to you the tale of someone who, on an on-line forum I stumbled upon, opined that the current climate is "nasty" because of the recession. Her point: There's a real "air of the '80s" out there because the recession has caused people to get nasty and competitive. Sadly, I believe this individual was being serious. A young person who, I think it's fairly safe to assume, has been brainwashed by anti-Reganite or anti-Thatcherite professors, parents or peers.
Here was my response:

"Actually, there's not much of an air of the '80s at all. It's much more reminiscent of the '70s when we had a completely stagnant business and financial climate. The '80s were a time of recovery from recession, when a family's financial situation began to improve and the business environment recovered. It's only 'nasty' out there because businesses are fighting a losing battle to survive and the cost of living has shot up without a corresponding rise in salaries. The private sector—the one and only true bellweather of the economy—hasn't provided its workers with a raise or cost-of-living adjustment in years. What—in a time of desperation, you don't expect people to compete to survive? C'mon. You're ignoring both history and human nature. What's your solution to the recession, more deficit spending?"

I can't wait for the response, assuming I'll get one, if I'm not simply ignored as another intolerant, foaming-at-the-mouth "teabagger" conservative.
What else have I been up to? Well, I wrote an e-mail to Les Moonves of CBS. Not to complain about CBS' history of pursuing a considerably left-of-center agenda—we all know nothing will be done to correct that—but to ask him to consider bringing back Rich Fields as the announcer of "The Price is Right." Yep, you read that correctly. That alone speaks volumes about just how bored I am capable of getting whenever I'm not working, sleeping or doing housework and too lazy to write an entry here on Blogger. Sad, or what? I've said it before, folks, and I'll say it again: Once you pass the big 4-0 mark, you begin to go a bit nuts and get wildly protective of nearly anything from your youth that's still around. But I don't care what anyone says: Rich Fields was good for "TPIR."
Mind you, I think Les Moonves has his hands more than full at the moment with the whole Charlie Sheen saga.