There is a new secret message in the Links of the Day for today, and the first one to e-mail it to me gets to be declared super-smart.
There are also bonus points for finding the secret message I put in the Links of the Day during the past week.
Super-smart for last week: Scott Wright for being the first to e-mail me the secret message and Alan S. from Albuquerque for being the first to find the elegant solution to the puzzle.
Everyone bow before their supersmartness!
Here is the solution:

Here are the headlines.
LQRQG SGRDQS HTTBPBRDL LRA VHKXGA OHC KHQ R VRYHN BLLEG BK RDRIRVR
State Health Officials Say Monkey Pox Not A Major Issue In Alabama
XYFJHJCJZBK ZBA XVYXWVHQ XVJCWK FZQ KJWIW HY CYXWBPZIWB PJXXJWK
Politicians and property prices lay siege to Copenhagen hippies
WDYYNXTOUO ONJJIOUIR UD NSHCTXTCX VCHBTCYIXU UGCU AHICR VHTWIO AI PHDMIX
Communists suggested to Ukrainian parliament that bread prices be frozen
The first headline was the easiest, but the problem some people had was that they set up the solution from the headline like this.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
YIXLUGEOBDNSWRPCTAHFQMZKJV
Then, when the person went to the second headline, there seemed to be no relation to the scrambled alphabet. But I had encoded the headlines in a way that was simplest to me, so the alphabet I used was letter to be encoded to encoded letter:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
RIPJGTFSBYXDVKHOUNLQEZMCAW
Then, when the other headlines are solved, a pattern is noticed,
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
RIPJGTFSBYXDVKHOUNLQEZMCAW
ZMCAWRIPJGTFSBYXDVKHOUNLQE
CAWRIPJGTFSBYXDVKHOUNLQEZM
each alphabet being shifted from the one before.
So how to know which alphabet to use for the hidden secret message? Scott Wright just brute forced all possible shifts against the different possible secret encoded messages until a pattern emerged which worked, but there was a way to determine the proper alphabet. If you notice the letters that encode for B, they are I, M, and A. Just line up the last alphabet to make IMAO.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
RIPJGTFSBYXDVKHOUNLQEZMCAW
ZMCAWRIPJGTFSBYXDVKHOUNLQE
CAWRIPJGTFSBYXDVKHOUNLQEZM
HOUNLQEZMCAWRIPJGTFSBYXDVK
What’s left is to find the hidden secret message. The only method was trial and error, and the message was the first letter of the last word of each sentence.
OLFBTLSPNTMIAVPBTPYHWSMIL
BESURETODRINKYOUROVALTINE
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
A crummy commerical!
If you don’t get the joke, I’m sure someone in the comments section can explain it to you.