What is up with the HuffPo

I hear people raving left and right about the Huffington Post all the time ... OK maybe not "raving" "left" and "right" but people do really like it, right? It's the new Slate, etc? The few times I've clicked over there (it comes perilously close to a news source for me) to read an article (usually linked from a blog or some such), I admit I am enticed to click on like five other links. The related articles splattered all over the page just freaking intrigue me. Like this one: "Why can't women sleep?" This headline is pushing all my buttons ... I'm a woman! Sometimes I can't sleep! Is this science or just sexism? Give it to me, HuffPo!!

If you actually read the article, you'll see the writing really sucks. I basically found something wrong or stupid in every sentence. The intro is based on nonsensical math. ("According to the National Sleep Foundation's 2007 Sleep in America poll, '67% of women say they frequently experience a sleep problem. Additionally, 43% say that daytime sleepiness interferes with their daily activities.' Add up those figures and you'll end up with a larger-than-life percentage." Uhhh, but toward what purpose are they being added? I'm guessing the 43% is a subset of the 67%, rather than 110% of women splitting between two nonexclusive camps.) The first subhead is actually "Sleep: What is it?"

UHHHH. Is the average Internet reader seriously this dumb now? The author goes on to say that she thought (before conducting extensive research for this piece, apparently) sleep was a "non-thing." But no. Turns out, it's "an activity."

Putting aside the fact that HuffPo is in dire need of a copy editor, check out the non-brilliance of this passage:

It seems responsible to stress about the effects of your sleep-deficient night. And yes, a body that's frazzled by lack o' sleep is more prone to fueling a freak-out. [...]

The first step to better sleep is to rethink our worries. The things we're freaking out about feel real. But are they really happening?

We worry about botching the big presentation, for instance. Was that "accurate or not?" Did we forget the kids at school (or the dog at doggy daycare)? If the answer is no, there's really nothing to worry about, really....other than our worrisome attachment to worrying.

Is it just me, or is that straight-up incoherent? "Was that 'accurate or not?'"??? Do some of those really's somehow cancel each other out like double negatives? Besides, don't we have conclusive evidence that lack of sleep makes people fuck shit up? I just heard that's what really caused the Exxon Valdez spill.

So what the hell people. Tell me what is up with the HuffPo. Is this just a crazy outlier? Because I'm starting to think that anything populist blows.