Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged has some insightful comments on Rudy Giuliani and the lawsuit filed by three New York City employees -- a policeman and two firemen -- who were fired in 1998 after riding on a racist parade float. New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman also wrote about the incident in Friday's Times.

Julia reminds us of Rudy's very troubling ties to racist elements within the New York City Police Department, and of his role as defender and apologist for the NYPD in the Diallo and Louima cases. Too much of that history has been forgotten by too many following St. Rudy's post-9/11 canonization.