Why are you reading this blog when the Speechwriter's Conference is going on?

I suppose a more committed blogger would be posting streaming insights from the Mayflower hotel as soon as they came out of the speakers' mouths.

Of course, a more committed speechwriter would be at the Speechwriter's Conference, rather than reading this blog.

And if you're at the conference and reading this blog, for God sakes get out of your room and back downstairs, where you can see the blogger saying foolish things with unearned authority in person.

Maybe you can even get his attention long enough to hear him say a foolish thing to you!

In any case: Back at you from Chicago next week.