A new live collection of Ronstadt performances was released on Friday. It's the first live album of Ronstadts career. It features 12 tracks from her 1980 HBO special. Other new releases include a Don Felder solo LP called “American Rock n Roll”. He'll be joined by Sammy Hagar, Slash, Bob Weir, Mick Fleetwood and Joe Satriani. And Frank Zappa's classic double live LP “Zappa in New York” is celebrating 40 years and is being re-released in a remasterd and expanded LP and five disc set. It includes three hours of unreleased performances.
The seedings are out for high school hockey:
First round byes for Wausau West, Northland Pines, Stevens Point with DC Everest and Wisconsin Rapids meeting up in a 4/5 game at Greenheck, and Marshfield facing Chippewa Falls in a 4/5 game as well. First round games have the East/Merrill Bluejacks at Rhinelander, Pacelli at Lakeland and Mosinee at Tomahawk. For the girls, The Central Wisconsin Storm have a first round bye. They will face the winner of Northland Pines/Black River Falls. Lakeland will play Rhinelander and Wisc Valley Union vs Medford in other first round games.
Also, the WIAA announced on Friday that seeding for high school football playoff first round action will be done by computer so coaches will not have to travel first thing on Saturday morning after their final regular game. The thinking is that there will also be less politicking and emotion in the seedings as well.
I'll have an early hockey game today as the Wausau East/Merrill Bluejacks make up a game at Wisconsin Rapids…the puck drops at 5pm on Foxsports Radio AM1390 & FM 93.9.
Things to piss you off:
Truvada is a medication that could effectively end HIV. It was developed with public funding. It costs $6 per month to manufacture. Gilead charges $1600 for it.
In 1923 Canadian scientists Frederick Banting and Charles Best won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin. They decided to give away the patent for free because they wanted insulin to be available to diabetics at no charge. When Banting and Best turned over the patent for production, they agreed to recieve only $1 in compensation. Since then, drug companies monopolized the insulin market and now charge diabetics $500 a month to survive.
As soon as the Treasury Department lifted sanctions against Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska a member of Donald Trump's transistion team was named as a new board member of the company.
Quotes Of The Week
“Lets not sugarcoat this. Supporters of the President reportedly threatened to lynch Jussie Smollet by putting a noose around his neck, beating him and burning him with bleach. Don't tell me that red hat isn't a symbol of white supremacy and hate. Lynching. In 2019. WTF America”-Kaz Weida
” I again recommend a law prohibiting all corporations from contributing to campaign expenses of any party.' Theodore Roosevelt (a Republican)
“Howard Schultz, Michael Bloomberg and Jamie Dimon are all now flirting with running for president because Trump showed anyone can win with enough money, gall and BS. But Trump also showed America the consequences of making such a person president.”-Robert Reich
“Wealth doesnt make Howard Schultz or anyone else bad or un-American. It's wealth plus a smug, selfish unwillingness to have more of it taxed. As Warren Buffet says “There's class warfare all right, but its my class, the rich class, making war and we're winning.”-Kurt Andersen
“The most embarrassing thing in your yearbook should always be your haircut.”-Jess Dweck
“There is no private company that exists in which 6 associates of the CEO have been indicted and the CEO is still on the job.”-Rep Ted Lieu
Songs of The Day (Happy Birthday to Alice Cooper who turns 71 today)
