I'm off to China to spend three weeks without e-mail, voice mail or white males. I tremble at the thought.

Happily, I'm being spelled as Speechwriter's Slant blogger Hal Gordon, who will no doubt impress you as smarter, more experienced, and about 50 times better educated than the other guy who used to write this blog, whatever his name was.

Hal, who has written speeches for President Reagan, General Colin Powell and a number of other luminaries in business and politics, will share his many ideas here until I return on July 25.

Take advantage of Hal's presence here. He's a genius and a dear man to boot.

See you on the other side.

David