Actually, you are wrong and I'd appreciate an apology for impugning my good name. Just to set the record straight, virtually all my talks are done for free with the organizations picking up only expenses, and not even that in some cases. Of the six talks I have given so far this year, only three even picked up expenses. I or the Foundation occasionally receive a modest honorarium, but that is not normally a condition for accepting a speaking engagement and has never covered the actual cost involved in developing these talks, even if figured at minimum wage. Let me make this very clear; this isn't a business, period. God knows my wife wishes it was.

So, even if the argument that we were using his name to promote a business held water from a legal perspective, which it does not because his name is technically not being used in that manner, it would fall apart because there is nothing being sold. Whether you want to believe it or not, that's the way it is, and I have the fiscal bruises to prove it. <img src="images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
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