Monday Fun Link

David Weigel | October 2, 2006

You don't need to be a New Yorker to be confused and bemused by this - the speaker of the state Assembly reading from Paul Schrader's Taxi Driver script, with all the naughty words replaced by "expletives."

The DeNiro-like speaker, Sheldon Silver, was last in the news after Bill O'Reilly named him "the worst politician in America" for refusing to insert Logan's Run-style gems in sexual predators' palms. Or something.