Well, I'm going to plead guilty, your Honor, but with a statement in mitigation of my guilt.

In Bobert's thread about Why Rebuild New Orleans, I pasted a LOOOONG article. And some may have been critical of that fact. Howsomever.....

1. The premise of the thread was a simple (not to say simplistic) question, but with a rather complicated answer in the real world.
2. The article explained in depth, in a way that I believed I could not meaningfully summarize without losing the strength of its argument.
3. The admittedly LOOOONG article I posted was one I had received in an e-mail, not from a website I could just clickify.   The only way I could give the information was by quoting in full.
4. My post DID identify the source.
5. In the introduction to my post I warned readers that it was long, and anyone who didn't want to read that much was warned, and free to skip to the next.

Dave Oesterreich