The New York Times reports on a lawsuit brought against the City by a Muslim counter-terrorism officer. The suit concerns anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate speech contained in emails by a City contractor, who was presumably quoting various republicans. This war on terror business isn't serious enough, I guess, to maybe stop hating our own intelligence guys if they happen to belong to the wrong religious or ethnic group. Muslim: for Michelle Malkin and others, it's the new n****r. Call it what it is. Also in the Times, a glaring setback for "Public" Advocate Betsy Gotbaum. It turns out that the court handling the Brooke Astor case couldn't substantiate the claims of elder abuse brought against Brooke Astor's son; the Astor case, of course, was a cause celèbre eagerly taken up by Gotbaum, who tends not to make an appearance when, say, 100,000 normal-income people lose power for nine days. By the by, rumor has it that she's running for mayor, god help us all. The Albany Project celebrates its first week. Good work, gentlemen; you're showing why we need citizen blogs. DMIblog has a downright shocking piece on comparative incarceration rates. Heh. DailyKos guffaws at republican lawmakers' indignation over the new, more work-heavy schedule to be adopted by the House in January. No more four day weekends for you. "The best investment a government can make is to put milk into babies". Said by Churchill, now taken up by Schumer. Lastly, more Schumer: The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle calls on the senior Senator to bring back tax deductibility for college tuitions. That does seem more worthwhile than a flag-burning amendment.