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Horse sex and fluff are online hits

Seattle Times editors published a list of the most clicked online stories of the year and found that the top story -- and five of the top 20 -- were about a man who died from a perforated colon while having sex with a horse .

"I don't know whether to ignore this alarming factoid or to embrace it," says Seattle Times Columnist Danny Westneat. "It's not just the horse sex. The rest of the top 20 people's-choice list is eye-opening, as well....

"A lot of the stories on the list are what we serious-minded media professionals would imperiously call "soft." There's an article on a vanity license plate that showed the chemical formula for meth. A judge deciding a cat's life is worth exactly $45,480. Congressman Jim McDermott being featured in the book "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America."

"There's not much on the so-called "issues" we're always implored to focus on, such as transportation or education. Nothing on the big campaign topics of the year, such as the monorail or gas tax. And nothing on this paper's major investigations or in-depth series....

"There's got to be a lesson in all this. Maybe the Web favors shorter, more emotional stories, and all you paying subscribers are happily wading through my columns on transit policy or our three-part projects.

"Or, maybe, some of us are not giving readers enough of what you really want."

The Seattle Times' Top 20

Below are the most read local news stories for 2005 as measured by online traffic at www.seattletimes.com. The list doesn't include national news or sports stories: