Yip this

It may not be a fair comparison, but let's look at the editorials from the Star Tribune and New York Times:

Star Tribune	New York Times
Bush in Africa	Iraq occupation
Yips and the Mayo Clinic	Something important
	Sidewalk vendors & state law

The fucking Yips? (for those who aren't down with golf lingo, apparently some golfers have major muscle control problems when trying to putt, causing poor performance) I'm not even going to get into what a waste of medical research dollars this study is. (the strib disagrees and applaudes the study; I'm wondering one thing: have we fixed that whole AIDS thing?)

Is there so little going on in this state that what should be a mediocre sports column makes its way to the editorial board? Of course the comparison to the New York Times may be unfair, so here's a sampling of a few other newspapers' editorial topics:

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
  • Water shortage
  • School Board tomfoolery
  • American vs. foreign cars
• Dallas Morning News
  • No uranium in Iraq
  • Medicare drug benefit
  • State budget controversy
• Kansas City Star (hi maggie)
  • Sept. 11 failures
  • Food labeling accuracy
  • Supreme Court and the death penalty

I'm sure these papers have their share of crap editorial topics, even the NYT runs the occasional weather editorial. But the Star Tribune is getting pretty worthless in the editorial department. Perhaps the clearest indicator of this is its placement on the navigation bar on the left side of their homepage.