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To keep the Conversation going, please help me by linking news articles, opinion pieces and other political content in today's Comments section.

Link Code: <a href="URL">text</a>

OR here's a link generator. The one I had posted died, then Akhilleus found one, but it too bit the dust. He found yet another, which I've linked here, and as of September 23, 2024, it's working.

OR you can always just block, copy and paste to your comment the URL (Web address) of the page you want to link.

Note for Readers. It is not possible for commenters to "throw" their highlighted links to another window. But you can do that yourself. Right-click on the link and a drop-down box will give you choices as to where you want to open the link: in a new tab, new window or new private window.

The New York Times lists Emmy winners. The AP has an overview story here.

New York Times: “Hvaldimir, a beluga whale who had captured the public’s imagination since 2019 after he was spotted wearing a harness seemingly designed for a camera, was found dead on Saturday in Norway, according to a nonprofit that worked to protect the whale.... [Hvaldimir] was wearing a harness that identified it as “equipment” from St. Petersburg. There also appeared to be a camera mount. Some wondered if the whale was on a Russian reconnaissance mission. Russia has never claimed ownership of the whale. If Hvaldimir was a spy, he was an exceptionally friendly one. The whale showed signs of domestication, and was comfortable around people. He remained in busier waters than are typical for belugas....” ~~~

~~~ Marie: Oh, Lord, do not let Bobby Kennedy, Jr., near that carcass. ~~~

~~~ AP Update: “There’s no evidence that a well-known beluga whale that lived off Norway’s coast and whose harness ignited speculation it was a Russian spy was shot to death last month as claimed by animal rights groups, Norwegian police said Monday.... Police said that the Norwegian Veterinary Institute conducted a preliminary autopsy on the animal, which was become known as 'Hvaldimir,' combining the Norwegian word for whale — hval — and the first name of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'There are no findings from the autopsy that indicate that Hvaldimir has been shot,' police said in a statement.”

New York Times: Botswana's “President Mokgweetsi Masisi grinned as he lifted the diamond, a 2,492-carat stone that is the biggest diamond unearthed in more than a century and the second-largest ever found, according to the Vancouver-based mining operator Lucara, which owns the mine where it was found. This exceptional discovery could bring back the luster of the natural diamond mining industry, mining companies and experts say. The diamond was discovered in the same relatively small mine in northeastern Botswana that has produced several of the largest such stones in living memory. Such gemstones typically surface as a result of volcanic activity.... The diamond will likely sell in the range of tens of millions of dollars....”

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~~~ Guardian: "On a distant reef 16,000km from Paris, surfer Gabriel Medina has given Olympic viewers one of the most memorable images of the Games yet, with an airborne celebration so well poised it looked too good to be true. The Brazilian took off a thundering wave at Teahupo’o in Tahiti on Monday, emerging from a barrelling section before soaring into the air and appearing to settle on a Pacific cloud, pointing to the sky with biblical serenity, his movements mirrored precisely by his surfboard. The shot was taken by Agence France-Presse photographer Jérôme Brouillet, who said “the conditions were perfect, the waves were taller than we expected”. He took the photo while aboard a boat nearby, capturing the surreal image with such accuracy that at first some suspected Photoshop or AI."

Washington Post: “'Mary Cassatt at Work' is a large and mostly satisfying exhibition devoted to the career of the great American artist beloved for her sensitive and often sentimental views of family life. The 'at work' in the title of the Philadelphia Museum of Art show references the curators’ interest in Cassatt’s pioneering effort to establish herself as a professional artist within a male-dominated field. Throughout the show, which includes some 130 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings, the wall text and the art on view stresses Cassatt’s fixation on art as a career rather than a pastime.... Mary Cassatt at Work is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through Sept. 8. philamuseum.org”

New York Times: “Bob Newhart, who died on Thursday at the age of 94, has been such a beloved giant of popular culture for so long that it’s easy to forget how unlikely it was that he became one of the founding fathers of stand-up comedy. Before basically inventing the hit stand-up special, with the 1960 Grammy-winning album 'The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart' — that doesn’t even count his pay-per-view event broadcast on Canadian television that some cite as the first filmed special — he was a soft-spoken accountant who had never done a set in a nightclub. That he made a classic with so little preparation is one of the great miracles in the history of comedy.... Bob Newhart holds up. In fact, it’s hard to think of a stand-up from that era who is a better argument against the commonplace idea that comedy does not age well.”

Washington Post: “An early Titian masterpiece — once looted by Napolean’s troops and a part of royal collections for centuries — caused a stir when it was stolen from the home of a British marquess in 1995. Seven years later, it was found inside an unassuming white and blue plastic bag at a bus stop in southwest London by an art detective, and returned. This week, the oil painting 'The Rest on the Flight into Egypt' sold for more than $22 million at Christie’s. It was a record for the Renaissance artist, whom museums describe as the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice. Ahead of the sale in April, the auction house billed it as 'the most important work by Titian to come to the auction market in more than a generation.'”

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How to Link a Story in the Comments Section

The easy -- and perfectly fine -- way to create a link is to CLICK, COPY and PASTE the URL of the story you want to share. That is, while in the window of the page you want to share, highlight the address bar, which is likely at the top of your screen. So,

(1) CLICK on the URL -- let's say it's https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/politics/biden-economy-bidenomics.html -- which will highlight (i.e., block) the entire URL.

(2) COPY the URL. You may have a "copy" function on your toolbar; if you don't, simultaneously type CONTROL + C. That saves the URL.

(3) Open the Reality Chex window and go to the "Create Comment" box as you usually do to write a comment. PASTE the URL into the box. Use either the paste function on your toolbal or simultaneously type CONTROL + V.

Also let us know what the story is about. So your entire comment might read,

This NYT story makes the case that today's economy is really good; that should help Joe Biden's re-election prospects:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/politics/biden-economy-bidenomics.html

(Of course you can add your own commentary before and/or after the URL. But let the URL stand alone on its own line.)

That's it. Couldn't be easier. CLICK, COPY, PASTE.

The fancy way is more time-consuming, but becomes easy after you do it a few times.

(1) Type your comment in Reality Chex' "Create Comment" box, as you normally would. Let's say your comment is

This NYT story makes the case that today's economy is really good; that should help Joe Biden's re-election prospects.

(2) Now, decide what words in your comment you want to use to create your link. Let's say they're

This NYT story

In front of the text you want to highlight, type <a herf=""> Exactly like that: Open-caret a Space href=Quotation mark Quotation mark Close-caret Make sure you use "regular" quotation marks. The curlique ones won't work. The only space is between a and href.

(3) Go to the page you want to share/link. CLICK on (i.e., highlight or block) the URL, and COPY the URL.

(4) Go back to the Reality Chex Create Comments box and PASTE the URL between the two sets of quotation marks.

(5) At the end of the text you want to highlight, type </a> That is Open-caret Forward-slash a Close-caret No spaces.

So your entire comment will look like this:

<a href="This NYT story">This NYT story</a> makes the case that today's economy is really good; that should help Joe Biden's re-election prospects.

You can preview your comment to see if the link worked the way you meant it to. (If not, you made some kind of typo or omission.) Your highlighted (that is, linked) text will show up the way it will appear to the reader.

I've put the code in the header, so that once you've figured out how to make a link, the code is easily accessible.

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I tried to email this info to myself for future reference and this
came up on my screen:

403 FORBIDDEN

Does anyone know what this means?

August 7, 2023 |

ForrestMorris

@Forrest Morris: Translation: Everyone is out to get you, even your friends.

August 7, 2023 |

Marie Burns

Or take the easy route. Bookmark the following site and go there any time you need a link:

Link Generator

All you do is paste in the URL and supply the text to highlight. Then hit "Get Code." There's even a button you can click to copy the result. Return to RealityChex and paste it in. Genius!

You're welcome.

August 8, 2023 |

Monoloco

@Monoloco: Thanks. I tried it and it works.

August 8, 2023 |

Marie Burns

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