Today's Topic

My topic today is: Why we’re not getting enough sleep.That was not originally going to be my topic. Originally my topic was going to be explosive diarrhea, which I apologize for even mentioning, but it has been in the news a LOT. Explosive diarrhea is everywhere. You can’t escape it! (By “it,” I mean the topic of explosive diarrhea.)Let’s say you’re interested in reading about federal legislation, so you go to the website of The Hill, a respected publication covering Congress, expecting to read about congressional matters such as bills and hearings. Here’s one of the headlines that will greet you:Beneath this headline is a Nexstar story explaining, in explicit detail, what explosive diarrhea is, as if you couldn’t figure that out for yourself from the fact that it’s called “explosive diarrhea.” And this is on a website that’s supposed to be about Congress.OK, maybe that makes some sense. But you get my point. My point is, lately we have all been WAY overexposed to this story, and…