And the geek shall inherit the earth

Very different from, but no less smart, erudite, and hilarious than Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondents Dinner skewering of George W. Bush, is John Hodgman's headlining speech at last night's Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner:

Sounding very much like Marvin the Martian claiming this planet in the name of Mars, last night Hodgman claimed this country in the name of geeks and nerds everywhere.

As someone who has been one for lo these 53 years and only realized when I turned 40 that my problem as a child was that I had been 40 all along, I can only say "It's about damn time."