Pique'n Yer Interest

We're losing sleep. Studies routinely depict a population that struggles with sleep, and the term sleep hygiene has been coined to describe how we are failing ourselves by not taking this seriously.

We're all hypocrites. Each and every one of us has an occasion where we'll say the right thing and urge others to do that action, but when push comes to shove, we can't be bothered to do it ourselves.

On one hand, Facebook is a proven time-waster packed with ridiculousness, false news and the trivial machinations of friends. On the other, it occasionally lives up to its raison d'être of creating community and conversation.

I don't know about you, but I like to find out how an important story ends. Last March, I wrote an op-ed in support of two community health nurses in Nova Scotia and their fight to create new laws in Parliament to combat non-state torture.

We are a society that loves a quick fix. It's why the Internet and late-night TV are littered with ads promoting get-rich-quick schemes, fad diets and questionable lifestyle gurus hawking their own personalized brand of reinvention.

I'm not supposed to be writing this here. Or if I'm writing it here, I'm not supposed to be writing it now. It's Boxing Day and I'm still in Winnipeg. And not leaving until tomorrow.

OK, I've waited long enough. Let's get into it. Only three kinds of votes were cast for Donald Trump: stupid, selfish, or both. This logic is easily proved. Believed his lies? Demonstrably stupid (whether uninformed or misinformed).

Creepy Elf On the Shelf, the Christmas phenomenon that made children feel like they were under surveillance during the holiday season, is still around, but it isn't king of the shelf anymore.

The Athenian philosopher king Socrates was hugely pessimistic of democracy. At the core of his criticism was the question of why society allows uneducated voters choose its leaders.

If you think U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will make America a mess, don't fret. In four short years, by which time Vice-President-elect Mike Pence will have imploded, the ideal running mate will be revealed.