Hollywood:

If you’re going to simply cut and paste from the People for the American Way website, please do us all the favor of simply typing (or cutting and pasting) the link, rather than the entire column.

This way, you waste far less of Roger’s bandwidth, and if people are interested, they can still go to the site.

But, really, cutting and pasting from PFAW (e.g.: http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=10520 for the Committee Rule IV section) isn’t more than argument by authority, or in this case, argument-by-those-who-agree-w/-you.

Now, if you had a piece from an actual Law Journal, it’d at least be introducing some learnedness into the debate, and if you had a personal opinion, it would be introducing your own thoughts. But cutting-and-pasting huge swathes of OTHER PEOPLE’S WRITINGS is, as someone above noted, simply rude, as well as intellectually dishonest (what, no citation?).