The New York Times is a funny newspaper. On the big issues, it's awful: unreliable, biased, arrogant, untrustworthy. But when it comes to things that don't matter, no one is more scrupulous than the editors of the Times. That's one of the reasons why it's fun to cruise the paper's Corrections section. This one from tomorrow's paper made me laugh:

An article last Sunday about “The Fortune Teller,” a production featuring marionettes, referred incorrectly to the sex scenes in “Avenue Q.” They involved puppets, not marionettes.

I suppose with marionettes, the strings would have gotten tangled up.

Seriously, though: if the Times were half as careful in its coverage of the Bush administration as it is when it reviews puppet shows, it would be a much better newspaper.