Intolerant some?
Actor Chris Evans is a big New England Patriots fans, but he's not sure if he ever could portray quarterback Tom Brady in a movie.
Asked in a recent interview with "The Hollywood Reporter," the actor equivocated because, you know, didn't the guy once like the president, or play golf with him, or have a red hat in his locker or something?
"I don't know," Evans said. "I really hope he's not a Trump supporter. I'm just hoping he's one of those guys that maybe supported him and now regrets it. Maybe he thought it was going to be different - and even that bothers me - but maybe there's a chance now he just thinks Trump's an absolute dumbs--, which he is. If he doesn't, if he's still on that Trump train, I might have to cut ties. It's really tough. I think maybe a couple of years ago, I might have tried to pull some, like, mental gymnastics to compartmentalize, but I don't know if I can anymore. So I'm just hoping he's woken up."
Brady has been friends with Trump for nearly 20 years but has probably never wondered if any linemen protecting him or receivers he throws to have the same political tastes as he does. Good thing. If they didn't, and didn't protect him or catch his passes, he - and they - wouldn't have six Super Bowl rings.
Stacey's race card
Forgetting perhaps that she is not a declared 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, 2018 Georgia gubernatorial campaign loser Stacey Abrams said race plays a part in why - as MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell put it - she is not "the darling of the media" instead of former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke.
A thinking person would have said it was because he was a candidate and she isn't. But she took the bait, choosing to group herself with fellow black 2018 candidate Andrew Gillum, who was the loser in the Florida governor's race.
"I think race plays a part," Abrams said. "I think region plays a part. I also think phenotype plays a part. My responsibility is to investigate running for president because I want people to understand I may not look like the typical candidate, but that does not diminish my capacity to possibly run for the job. That would be true for Andrew if he was interested."
Even though she had been a state senator and Gillum a city mayor, she said there was no difference between what they accomplished and what O'Rourke, a congressional back-bencher, accomplished.
"I would challenge people to consider why we were not lifted up in the same way," Abrams said.
She needed only look back 11 years to a black man who was lifted up - Barack Obama - and reconsider her challenge.
I'll sign that; no, I won't
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper became the second Democratic presidential candidate to proudly add his name to a pledge not to accept campaign contributions more than $200 from fossil fuel companies - only to realize he'd have to remove his name because the pledge also required him to eschew money from individuals associated with the fossil fuel industry.
Presented recently with the pledge at a bar in Newmarket, New Hampshire, he signed it, sanctimoniously crossed out the $200 and said he was refusing to accept any money from fossil fuel companies.
"I'm not going to take any corporate donations at all," Hickenlooper said.
However, when a member of the New Hampshire Youth Movement told him it meant individuals too, he crossed his name out and said it was an "impossible" pledge to abide by.
"We get a thousand checks a day," Hickenooper said. "People write them all the time. How can I sign this? You've made an impossible thing to sign if someone is going to run a race."
Fellow presidential campaign Beto O'Rourke had signed the pledge during his 2018 Senate race and then had to remove his name in December when it was learned he received $430,000 from individuals in the industry, including 29 gifts topping $200.
People who ride bikes
If you've ever become furious about Chattanooga's largely bikeless bike lanes or wanted to punch a bicyclist not obeying traffic laws, Australia may be the place for you.
A majority (55 percent) of Australians, according to a new study by two universities in the country, said they consider cyclists to be "not completely human."
Indeed, the study said one in five admitted to blocking cyclists on the road while driving, one in 10 said they had cut off a cyclist on the road and some admitted to throwing things at cyclists.
To solve the problem, a professor at Queensland University who was part of the study, said the term "cyclist" should be eliminated because it is "dehumanizing" and the individuals should be called "people who ride bikes." That, she said, would make them seem "more human-like and less like a species."
But how it would help change drivers' opinions of the behavior by cyclists was not clear.