true to my promise to convert this site to a stephen colbert adoration club, here is a transcript of every lovely word from his keynote at the 2006 white house correspondents dinner.

in case you need an appetizer: “oh, they’re just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. first of all, that is a terrible metaphor. this administration is not sinking. this administration is soaring. if anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the hindenburg!”