Utilizing the Flock Browser…

I just wanted to first of all report how ironic it was that this browser should name itself "Flock".  It seems that web 2.0 gadgets lead people to adopt a flock mentality.  For example, MySpace.  Starts out small, some people tell their friends about it, next thing you know, Dateline is doing an expose on MySpace…

 I admit I am guilty of this as well, but it just seems like I’m going along with the herd.  or the flock…  of sheep…  ripe for the slaughter…  That’s all of us.

Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, I have completed the paper on Hugo Chavez, and am interested in distributing it.  I intend to attempt to publish it in an academic journal, and when I am finished with Grad School, I want to take many of my essays on government and publish them as a monogram.  Included in this book will be the papers I wrote on Cuba, Guatemala, and now Venezuela, as well as the other "professional" paper I produce in my Masters’ programme, detailing a modern history of US troublemaking in Latin America.  But for now, I will email a copy to anyone who is interested in reading it and critiquing it.  If you do not intend to provide me with a critique of the paper, do not bother asking me for it.  You will eventually be able to read it to cure your insomnia on JStor.

 To get a copy of the paper, write me a message in my guest book.  I will not respond to email requests or phone requests.  This is two fold.  First, it fills my guestbook out, which few of you (actually none of you) have bothered to write anything in.  Second, it allows me to keep an easily available record of who has a copy of the paper, in case one of you all want to plagerize me.  I don’t have any problem with you all using the paper as a citation, but I really don’t like the idea of intellectual dishonesty, and at my level this is a more serious problem than it would at the outset appear.  If nothing else, plagerization eliminates any possibility of me getting published in a journal, which pretty much messes up my career choices.

So…  Send me a message in my guestbook if you want to read the Hugo Chavez paper.

Serenely,

W. Doc 

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