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It’s finally draft week! We’re just a few days away from the 2024 NFL Draft, which starts with the first round on Thursday night. The Washington Commanders hold the second overall pick and will likely select one of three quarterbacks. Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye and J.J. McCarthy are all in play to be selected and I suspect given the way speculation ramps up in the final week before the draft, we’ll hear a good amount of people linking each quarterback to Washington.

Time to reach out, grab the third rail, and discuss the most controversial subject on planet Earth… For probably obvious reasons, I’m thinking a lot this week about Steven Spielberg’s Munich. That 2005 film told the story of the massacre of Israel’s entire Olympic team during the 1972 games by a Palestinian terrorist group Black September, and Israel’s response. This entailed sending a covert team — led by Mossad agent Avner (Eric Bana) — around Europe to assassinate the perpetrators one by one.

Following my reappraisal of the 1982 Oscars, let’s do the same to the year 1983. These feature eligible movies appearing in 1982, according to the Oscar’s rules. “Gandhi” You look back on this now, and they slighted Spielberg again. He lost for “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in the previous year. Now, he goes out and has the second-biggest box-office hit ever in “E.T.” — adjusted for inflation — and they don’t give it to him!

We live in an era in which we can change the look of a document on a computer screen with a few button clicks. The aesthetics of type is both more noticeable than ever, yet, perhaps, less considered. Ease, ubiquity, and low cost have made ours both a golden age of typography and a veritable tower of typographic babble. Finding the right font – or, at least, a right font – remains one of the most important factors in designing text.

(Rewatch/Rewind is a feature in which I revisit a film that once made an impression on me, but I haven’t watched in at least a decade. Spoilers should be expected.)  When you get to be a certain age (old), you start to become immune to the hype surrounding a film. You come to realize that a horror movie breathlessly described as “the most terrifying movie you’ll see this year” will probably just have a couple of jump scares in it.

MUST LOVE DOGS is a reader-supported publication. If you have the means and you value this work, I’d be so grateful if you’d consider becoming a paid subscriber. This will help me sustain these offerings and continue writing. “I tried to keep a passive face when I handed The Most Beautiful Dog in the world [who happened to be covered in human sh*t] to the most Expensive Groomer in the World.

On June 9, 2020, Rex Chapman sent me a text message letting me know he was going to be interviewed by Stephanie Rhule on MSNBC. It was two weeks after George Floyd’s murder, and Rhule wanted to talk to Rex about the column he published in the Lexington Herald-Leader detailing some of his experiences with racism while playing for the University of Kentucky. During the interview, Rex told a story from his sophomore season at Owensboro High School.

On Thursday night, CNBC host Brian Sullivan interviewed me on his show, “Last Call.” We discussed the southern border, LNG exports, and bitcoin. Here’s a summary of our conversation: The Southern Border The reality of the southern border is surreal. I’ve been to the border twice, and on my most recent visit, I ncG1vNJzZminoJq7b7%2FUm6qtmZOge6S7zGinrppfp7yjsdGtnaSdnqOypcXJq2apZ5KewaS7yKdkm6eimbKzecSnnKufqWK4prrNnpuyZZOjr6SL1K2kmKufqr%2BksZyppqysVpi8rrnEp6usdaSnwqZy1K2kmKWVmba2uZywnJs%3D

From an ACLU of RI press release: In a major victory for criminal justice reform and the rights of youthful offenders, the Rhode Island Supreme Court today ruled that Mario Monteiro and other similarly situated teenagers and young adults are eligible for parole consideration for release to the community after serving twenty years. The ruling was issued in cases filed by the ACLU of RI last year after the State took the position that a 2021 statute enacted by the General Assembly designed to give young offenders serving lengthy sentences a chance for early release on parole, and which was overtly intended to help Monteiro, did not apply to him or the others.