I won't apologize to you or anyone else. I know some of those guys over at BR, one of them I actually went to college with. Like them or not, they work hard to provide original content and insight. So to see their content lifted and pasted was particularly irksome, not only as a friend, but user of this board.
It's not like the article wasn't attributed to them, but copying and pasting the entire thing instead just a snippet and linking to it drives down their web traffic and ad revenues. And again, it's just poor form on any online forum in general.
Any halfway-savvy user of the internet should know this by now, and if not, get called out for it on any message board that prides itself on being run well.