I may have to update my speech, “To Beard Or Not To Beard,” to include the just-released mug-shot of Rod Blagojevich.

Thank you Freedom of Information Act and WGN-Ch. 9!

After a few months of sporting a beard/goatee, I shaved yesterday. I would have shaved about two weeks sooner, but I was invited to deliver a speech that I wrote about beards to a Toastmasters club on Thursday, April 9.

Although the beard is gone (for now), you can decide for yourself whether it made for a good speech by viewing it here.