Things One Should Not Do for Extra Traffic.

Namely: Consent to having your stuff reprinted in a snake pit.

Peter Kaplan Joe Conason is smarter than this.

(Memo to the No Quarter racists: The New York Observer is a newspaper, not a magazine.)

...Rereading the NQ post, it looks like the EOC of the Observer -- the esteemed Mr. Kaplan -- gave them permission. It probably wasn't Conason's call to make and the blame was carelessly assigned.