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[golden_berry]

To show that my disgust with politicians is not confined entirely to one side of the great divide, I present as evidence this link to a David Brooks column skewering the gasbags on both sides of the Senate aisle.   Normally, I don't like Brooks, who is way too Mr. Conservative for my taste, but I thoroughly enjoyed this pitch-perfect mockery of our

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[hybridutensil]

You go like this:

<**a href="http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/15/opinion/15brooks.html&OQ=hp&OP=4f9cc9d9Q2FQ3E5Q5BnQ3EFb8tQ2BbbQ7CQ24Q3EQ2499LQ3E9fQ3E)LQ3EbqHhHbhQ3E)LnQ2Bbb(tQ26DQ7C2d"**>What you want the link to say

Take out those six asterisks, and you get this:
What you want the link to say

I hope that works :)

[hybridutensil]

nope, it didn't work -- take out those 4 asterisks and type this after the word "say":

Works this time?

[golden_berry]

See, this is why I've never learned how to do it. It's too bloody complicated. But thanks for trying. I'm impressed with your computer skills, young whippersnapper. ;>D

[hybridutensil]

It's just <**a href="address of link">Name of link

Not terribly complicated -- it's just that NYTimes has long links :)

[mechtild]

Thanks, hybridtensil. (I was lurking.) I wondered how to do that, too. And thanks for asking the question, Goldenberry, so that hybridtensil could answer! *grinning face*

~ Mechtild

[hybridutensil]

But of course! My pleasure! :D

[golden_berry]

Your penguin icon? CUTEST. THING. EVER.

[hybridutensil]

Hee! Penguins!

[cionaudha]

Yeah. Like that. Nothing to it!

And yeah, there's plenty of assholery everywhere along the senatorial spectrum. Because the business of making everybody happy all the time is unnatural and does strange things to the soul.