[Adam Taxin]

Law practice is fine.

It has more to do with egomania than anything else, I suppose! (But I have no problem with writers and publications getting credit for their work ... you as a free marketer can appreciate it; as you’ll see in my own writing, I am very careful to credit and link to other sources and only use “teasers.”)

Anyhow, I did share pretty much the entire relevant part of the article. (I left out a few somewhat tedious paragraphs.)

And you are aware that the FreeRepublic/Examiner agreement requires that only an “excerpt” can be published here? I have stretched that limit to as about as great an extent permissible here (just for you and your friends), as I’m sure you’ll agree if you take a look.

Thanks for asking.

[shibumi]

"It has more to do with egomania than anything else, I suppose! "

A remarkably accurate self-assessment.

"And you are aware that the FreeRepublic/Examiner agreement requires that only an “excerpt” can be published here?"

I am aware that in the case of "Joe Newby" aka "FredJake" aka "jdawg2010" (May he rest in Zot!) the poster/author was so desperate for hits that he brought copyright threats against FreeRepublic for posting his "work" (which was mostly drivel) in full.

I guess I was abused of the notion that you, as author of your own work had complete discretion over where and how it was published/posted.

As an aside, if you really believe that parts of your writing are tedious, I would refer you to the maxim of one of my favorite mentors, Dr. Ed Cronin, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English and GPLS at Notre Dame:

""Verbosity is failure."