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Gregory Davis Kunkel
A Life and Personality Unlike Any Other
October 22, 1957
September 1, 2026
Rest in Peace Kunks.
My Memorial To Kunks
Today we lost Greg “Kunks” Kunkel—a great caddymaster, golfer, sports fan, mentor, friend, husband, father, grandfather, and one of the truly good men in this world.
For those of us who came up as caddies, Kunks was never just the man assigning loops or managing the caddie yard. He was part coach, part guardian, part teacher, part friend, and often the person looking out for the kid who needed someone in his corner. For 35 years, he understood that caddying was about much more than carrying a bag, reading a putt, finding a ball, or keeping pace. It was about responsibility, trust, work, respect, humor, and learning how to walk alongside other people.
A caddie learns to be present: to pay attention, to offer steady encouragement, to help someone through the rough, to celebrate the good shots, and to keep walking after the bad ones. Kunks lived that lesson. He guided generations of caddies and golfers not from a distance, but alongside them—on fairways, in caddie yards, through difficult moments, and across decades of friendship.
In the short, immortal, and haunting words Ram Dass said, “We’re all just walking each other home.” For those of us who knew Kunks through golf and caddying, those words feel especially true today. A caddie walks beside another person—sometimes quietly, sometimes with advice, sometimes with a laugh at exactly the right time—but always helping carry a little of the weight. Kunks did that for so many people. He made the walk lighter. He made people feel seen. He made them believe they belonged.
He was a Hall of Fame caddymaster, but his greatest legacy is not a title or a plaque. It is the countless people he mentored, defended, encouraged, and loved. It is in the friendships that began in the caddie yard and lasted a lifetime. It is in every young caddie who learned to work harder, carry themselves better, and look out for the next person because Kunks showed them how.
The golf course can be a place of competition, beauty, frustration, humility, and joy. Kunks understood all of it. He loved the game, loved the people around it, and brought his extraordinary strength, character, and spirit to every part of his life.
Today, we mourn the loss of our friend. But we also give thanks for having walked with him. The fairways may feel quieter, the caddie yard a little emptier, and the walk a little harder without him. Yet his voice, his laughter, his toughness, his loyalty, and his generosity will remain with all of us.
Kunks, thank you for the lessons, the loops, the walks, the rounds, the stories, and the friendship. Thank you for carrying so much for so many. We will carry you with us now.
And until we meet again, we will keep walking each other home.
EZK retweeted
NEW 🚨: El Salvador’s President Just Issued a Challenge to Trump—“You Have 350 Million People to Liberate.”
This wasn’t a photo op. It was a mission briefing.
At the White House, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele looked President Trump dead in the eye and said:
“You have 350 million people to liberate.”
Bukele isn’t just talking tough—he has the results to prove that it can be done.
“We turned the murder capital of the world—that’s what the journalists called it—into the safest country in the western hemisphere,” he said.
Critics complain about mass arrests.
Bukele fired back:
“Sometimes they say we imprisoned thousands. I like to say we liberated millions.”
Trump grinned: “That’s very good! Who gave him that line? Do you think I can use that?”
Then Bukele hit the heart of the problem:
“To liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. That’s the way it works, right? You can’t just free the criminals and think crime’s going to go down magically. You have to imprison them—so you can liberate 350 million Americans asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism.”
No fluff. No fantasy. Just facts.
This is what happens when real leaders speak truth.
America is finally ready to listen.
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I’m sorry, I REFUSE to chimp out over this story, pun INTENDED. Riddle me this? What ethnicity are monkeys/chimps? Why is CBS reporting the gestures of these girls as “racial gestures?” The racism is in the reporting!! CBS is telling you that THEY believe and equate chimps/monkeys with a particular ethnicity.
Unless you identify or you believe that you are a monkey or a chimp, I’m confused as to why anyone would take personal offense to this. Actually I’m not confused. The ones who are offended are seriously mentally disturbed, highly emotionally unregulated and too fragile to function in society with the rest of us. Let me guess, we need an anti-triggering law? If the actions of someone inadvertently trigger you, (which is subjective by the way, you can demand justice!
If three stupid white girls can make animal sounds outside your door and then you DEMAND an investigation, my question is if being stupid and silly is a crime, more of yall need to be locked up. The government and the authorities cannot palliate your feelings because someone hurt your feelings.
The deeper question is ARE YOU A FREAKING CHIMP? Because the crash out from this is proving it to be true. Maybe you are a chimp. Maybe we should just give you bananas and watch you crash out over everything because you are not prepared to live unencumbered out in the wild like the rest of us. Seek some help. You’re not oppressed because you’re black, you’re oppressed because you’re stupid!
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#OnThisDay Nov 11 1975: In the early hours, Rev. Richard W. Ingalls Sr. of Mariners’ Church Detroit tolls the bell 29 times for each of the Edmund Fitzgerald's lost crew members. What began as a simple devotion became an enduring tradition, famously immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting ballad. On May 2 2023, the day after Lightfoot's death, the bell tolled 30 times. – at Detroit, MI
ALT Jefferson Avenue façade of Mariners' Church, on a rainy night, Mike Russell 2007
#OnThisDay Nov 11 1975 2am: The Anderson and Ford encounter a debris field. A lifeboat is found, torn in half. Then another, with no survivors. By morning a massive air and sea search is underway, but the grim reality is clear: Fitzgerald has been lost with all hands.
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This is rather amazing.
Ancient Roman music is the most unsettling shit I’ve ever heard in my life
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The music is not from a surviving score. It is new music based on guesswork.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaulia
EZK retweeted
Dear Dave Matthews - @davematthewsbnd,
You closed your excellent Chicago United Center show last night by noting some people were happy with Tuesday’s results—big cheers—then calling to “hold their feet to the fire.” Sort of a buzzkill to an otherwise great show that allowed us to escape the battle cries of politics.
Your utopian rhetoric lacks awareness. The “affordability” message that helped Democrats (and sealed another term for Pritzker in Illinois) almost always becomes the vehicle for higher taxes, bigger government, and the rest of the progressive package.
In Illinois, residents already face some of the highest property tax rates in the country, layered on top of a high overall state-and-local tax burden. More “investments” in housing, childcare, healthcare, and the rest will be paid for by the same taxpayers who were promised relief. History shows the bills go up while the results lag.
The same coalition that cheers “affordability” has also pushed policies that weaken Title IX and girls’ sports by prioritizing gender identity over sex-based categories, expanded sanctuary protections that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, and aggressive climate mandates that raise energy and housing costs. Illinois has leaned hard into the sanctuary approach under Pritzker; the incentives and costs don’t disappear just because the rhetoric focuses on grocery bills and rents.
“Hold their feet to the fire” sounds good on stage, Dave. And when you live in homogenous liberal enclaves with high income and write and sing songs about love and dope, this all tracks with your luxury beliefs.
In practice, the track record in places like Illinois is higher taxes, more spending, less protection for women’s sports, more sanctuary policies, climate-driven cost increases, and a larger state role in daily life (note my work on the latest mental health screenings in Illinois schools).
The Dave Matthews song “Ants Marching”: “They all do it the same -- They all do it the same way.”
The cheering crowd may have thought Tuesday was a change. The ants just keep marching the same direction.
But I'll say the show was great. The violin needs to be a permanent part of the tour; no question.
Stick to the art, not the politics.
Respectfully,
A longtime fan, taxpayer, and voter of anyone but Pritzker
Great footage!
🇬🇧🇺🇸 Patton, Bradley, and Montgomery, in color, in Normandy, while the battle was still raging.
July 7, 1944. At Montgomery’s tactical headquarters near Blay, west of Bayeux, three of the Allies’ best-known commanders gather before the cameras.
Montgomery directs Allied ground operations in Normandy. Bradley commands the U.S. First Army. Patton is preparing his Third Army for combat; it will become operational on August 1.
The footage captures more than a meeting of generals. Montgomery also presents decorations to American soldiers and generals, with photographers and cameramen crowding around to record the ceremony.
Beyond this headquarters, the fighting continues. Allied troops are struggling through the hedgerows, and the battle for Caen is far from over. The breakout that will send Patton’s columns racing across France still lies ahead.
Preserved in the wartime color films of George Stevens and his team, these images offer something photographs cannot: gestures, expressions, and brief exchanges between men we usually encounter frozen on the pages of history.
For more WWII footage and the history behind it, follow @Vanguard_WW2.
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Near the end of Cormac McCarthy's book The Road, a dying father speaks to his son for the last time.
You have to carry the fire.
I don’t know how to.
Yes you do.
Is it real? The fire?
Yes it is.
Where is it? I dont know where it is.
Yes you do. It's inside you. It was always there. I can see it.
The world in that book has nothing left for the man to hand down. No house and no inheritance. All the father has to give is what he has guarded the whole way on the road, and that is courage and the refusal to be cruel when cruelty might be easier.
Notice what he doesn’t say. He doesn’t say, "Take my fire." He says, "It was always there. I can see it."
That’s the last work of a father. Not just to pour something into a boy, but to also see what is already in him and trust him to carry it forward.
Our sons probably won’t remember most of what we buy them. They will remember whether we believed in them and if we kept our light when the days were dark.
In this often dark world, carry the fire and then help someone else find theirs.
The best thing we leave behind is not always in our hands. It’s also in the people we helped to see the light.
Teach em young
Billy Strings' dad played him Black Sabbath when he was about 7, and he said it 'scared the shit out of me.' Before bluegrass, he played in a metal band as a teenager.
Here he is dressed as He-Man at his Masters of the Universe-themed Halloween show in Baltimore, 10/31/26, playing 'Symptom of the Universe' live for the first time.
The 1975 Sabotage riff is often called a blueprint for thrash metal.
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For reals?
Billy Strings' dad played him Black Sabbath when he was about 7, and he said it 'scared the shit out of me.' Before bluegrass, he played in a metal band as a teenager.
Here he is dressed as He-Man at his Masters of the Universe-themed Halloween show in Baltimore, 10/31/26, playing 'Symptom of the Universe' live for the first time.
The 1975 Sabotage riff is often called a blueprint for thrash metal.
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A Day in the Life of Ian Fleming
7.30am - Get up with the birds and bathe in the ocean, then back for breakfast, scrambled eggs and sit in the garden until 10am.
10am - Sit down and write 1500 words without looking back.
12.15pm - Snorkel around the bay looking for lobsters, then come back and have a couple of pink gins with lunch.
2.30pm -4pm - Siesta.
4pm - Sit in the garden for an hour, then go for another swim.
5pm - Write another 500 words, number the pages, put them in a folder and have a couple of powerful drinks.
7pm - Dinner and scrabble with his wife Ann.
10pm - To bed.
Legend
This is. great article about the great Leo Melamed. Everyone of us should take the time to learn how financial futures started and who was the visionary that invented it. He is 94 yrs old and still trades.
The Chicago History Museum honors 92-year-old Leo Melamed, whose journey is a reminder of an era when financial innovation changed the world for the better. wsj.com/opinion/leo-melamed-… via @WSJopinion
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Don’t miss the most interesting part of this story.
“According to DOJ, Syed Murtuza Kablazada paid about $11 MILLION to a Pakistan-based "telemarketing" outfit for the personal info of hundreds of thousands of Medicare patients.”
“A Pakistan based telemarketing outfit.”
That’s who provided him, with all the personal information on Medicare recipients to steal $227 million.
Can I now connect some very important dots?
Pakistan has been a proxy state of the CIA/shadow government for a really long time.
They helped Pakistan obtain nuclear weapons.
They used Pakistan as their “safe haven” for Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists we were fighting in Afghanistan. The same Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists that the CIA/shadow government had trained, armed and funded.
The CIA/shadow government also used Pakistan as the “safe haven” for their heroin trafficking out of Afghanistan.
Not to mention the close connection and cooperation between the CIA and Pakistan Intelligence.
Anybody remember the Awan Brothers, who were allowed to have full access to classified information through democrat Congressional leaders?
But this story is about Medicare FRAUD.
Is it connected to the CIA/shadow government?
Guess who has deep family connections to both the CIA and Pakistan?
Remember Obamacare?
Obama and the democrats shoved Obamacare through Congress in the middle of the night.
It was “purposely” designed to make it easier for taxpayers money to be stolen through FRAUD.
“The Trump administration says it has uncovered massive fraud inside Obamacare, removing nearly 3 million alleged bogus enrollees from the program as officials move to restore eligibility checks that were weakened under former President Joe Biden.”
“A Trump administration official told Fox News the alleged abuse cost taxpayers about $10 billion annually between 2021 and 2024.”
trendingpoliticsnews.com/new…
What are the odds that there’s lots more medical insurance FRAUD connected to Pakistan?
Most people miss the entire point of Obamacare.
Conservative pundits bash Obama for giving huge subsidies to the insurance companies.
But that was the whole point.
Taxpayers money was being funneled into the insurance companies and then it was stolen by fraudsters using false billing that nobody ever scrutinized.
One giant medical piggy bank of FRAUD.
And how deep are Obama’s connections to Pakistan?
His mom worked in Pakistan for USAID, an arm of the CIA.
Obama spent time in Pakistan in his younger years and had several college roommates from Pakistan. At least one was a boyfriend.
But there’s another important connection between Obama, Pakistan and the CIA.
The Muslim Brotherhood.
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Q drop
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Aug 29, 2018 1:02:38 AM EDT
Why did HUSSEIN + HRC + ADMIN + Staff + … use private emails to communicate?
Was HRC the only one to use unsecured server(s)?
If access was granted re: HRC private server(s) can you assume access was granted re: House server(s) re: AWAN?
AWAN>PAKISTANI Intelligence?
AWAN FREE?
Huma>Muslim Brotherhood?
Matters of NAT SEC.
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The ENTIRE Obama administration was a massive money laundering operation to STEAL taxpayers money and fund the Muslim Brotherhood.
Pakistan played an important role.
But Obama wasn’t the only president with deep ties to Pakistan.
So were the Bush family.
Link:
nitter.cf/joelange/status/210173…
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: An Indian national living in Illinois just pleaded GUILTY to ripping off Medicare for $227 MILLION, billing taxpayers for COVID test kits that seniors never asked for and never got
Prison and deport!
According to DOJ, Syed Murtuza Kablazada paid about $11 MILLION to a Pakistan-based "telemarketing" outfit for the personal info of hundreds of thousands of Medicare patients
He then ran fake claims through three Chicago-area labs.
Medicare paid out about $136 MILLION. The crew moved the money through overseas transfers and spent part of it on LUXURY CARS
He's forfeiting $46M+ that was seized from 10 bank accounts and faces up to 20 years 💯
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Grant Wilson had not started a game at Indiana. He came in at halftime today and threw the touchdown that won it.
Indiana beat Minnesota 23 to 16 in overtime. Josh Hoover started and was struggling, so Curt Cignetti went to his backup for the second half, and in overtime Wilson threw a 25 yard touchdown pass to end it.
That game was also absurd on its own. Minnesota hit a 60 yard field goal with 24 seconds left to go in front. Indiana answered with a 60 yard field goal of its own with 2 seconds left. Then overtime, then Wilson.
Now here is the part that makes him worth 500 words.
This is Grant Wilson's seventh season of college football. Seventh. It is also his last one.
He started at Fordham in 2021 and 2022. He transferred to Old Dominion and started 14 games there. Then in the second week of 2024, against East Carolina, he dislocated his elbow and tore tendons in his triceps and his wrist.
He went into the transfer portal after that.
Several schools offered him a chance to go be their starting quarterback.
He turned all of them down and went to Indiana to be a backup.
His explanation was short. It is hard to turn down Curt Cignetti.
So he sat. And while he sat, third on the depth chart, he spent his time teaching Fernando Mendoza how to play the position. Mendoza went on to win the Heisman Trophy, and the way Mendoza described him was as a full time quarterback fundamentals coach.
Then the NCAA granted Wilson a seventh year. He beat out Tyler Cherry for the backup job again this fall, and he went right back into the same role he had been in all along, which is the one where you prepare all week to play zero snaps.
Here is how he talks about that role.
"I know my role."
He says he embraces it every single day. He calls the whole thing a long journey.
Cignetti says Wilson is as good a team player as anybody on that roster, and that he probably wants to coach when he is finished.
A man who could have spent the last two years starting somewhere else chose instead to hold a clipboard, teach a Heisman winner his footwork, and wait.
Today they finally handed him the thing, in overtime, with everything on it.
He threw a touchdown and Indiana won.
