Новости за 24.03.2015

Get ready to feel very self-conscious about your soft, office-worker hands. Work wear company Carhartt found its perfect pitch man in San Francisco Giants pitcher/real life farmer Madison Bumgarner, who stars in its latest national ad campaign. It’s very outdoorsy. Bumgarner is featured cutting down a tree and casually throwing logs around his North Carolina farm, a standard offseason day in the life of the World Series MVP. “I can’t stand having sissy hands, soft hands,” he explains in the behind-the-scenes video. Читать дальше...

Inmates challenging lengthy solitary confinement in California prisons, a case scheduled to go to trial in Oakland this December, gained some high-placed moral support Monday from Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy, who sometimes uses public forums to hold forth on injustices he sees in the U.S. penal system, did just that in testimony to a House committee in Washington on the court budget. “Solitary confinement literally drives men mad,” he said, according to wire service reports. Referring to the penal system as a whole... Читать дальше...

For the American Legislative Exchange Council, the defections keep on coming. And the latest is a big one — BP. The conservative group, better known as ALEC, has come under fire for trying to roll back state laws that fight climate change and promote renewable power. That position may be popular among many of the