Some noteworthy links to take your mind off other tragedies and horrors:
• Home Depot to Display an Environmental Label—The New York Times reports that one of the nation’s largest retailers, Home Depot, “today will introduce a label for nearly 3,000 products, like fluorescent light bulbs that conserve electricity and natural insect killers, that promote energy conservation, sustainable forestry and clean water.”
• Globe writer wins Pulitzer for national reporting—The Boston Globe reports on how one of their own journalists, Charlie Savage, “yesterday won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for a series of stories about President Bush’s greatly expanded use of ‘signing statements.'”
• McCain To Send Self Back To Vietnamese POW Camp To Revitalize Campaign—An amusing piece of satire from The Onion that “reports” on the latest campaign strategy of Senator and presidential candidate John McCain.
• Daily Show: Senator Stevens Knows Where To Find The Missing Emails— Via Crooks and Liars, a video clip of The Daily Show in which Jon Stewart offers a humorous take on the e-mails that have gone missing from the White House.