“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” -Benito Mussolini             Adolph Hitler’s first official act as Chancellor of Germany was to outlaw trade unions, collective bargaining and the right to strike.             Mussolini and Hitler gave fascism a bad image.  They were dictators who […]

            If you are a fan of opera, a fan of theater, a fan of great art, or just like to experience a very special event whenever the opportunity presents itself, you absolutely must go to a performance of the current Capital Stage production of “Master Class,” the Tony Award-winning play by Terrence McNally.  As […]

            On the night of March 10, as my wife and I watched the immediate and utter devastation that was being caused by the first tsunami to hit the coast of Japan after the 9.0 earthquake had struck just hours earlier, I realized that thousands of human beings were suddenly either being killed or having […]

            Nobody shed a tear for the residents of Kansas City when the NBA franchise that had made that city its home picked up and moved west to settle in the previously unheralded capital of California.  Those Kings were a mediocre team that the fans of Kansas City had shown increasingly less interest in over […]