This speech was delivered despite one of the greatest hangovers in the entire history of the universe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERWrcBR1Wd0

I am rather proud of it. Even more proud of the extraordinary continuing vibrancy of the independence movement.

Blogging will resume very shortly. As several of you have noticed, there has been a great deal of technical work and stress testing done on the blog the past few days. This is almost complete: there may be something of a change in appearance shortly.