This Blogger has an emotional and familial connection to Columbia University, in New York City. As Readers of this Blog know; this Blogger is a very late child. When he was born, he had two brothers, a generation older than he. One fought  the Nazis in Italy and Southern France; one fought the Imperial Japanese on Saipan. In fact the inside family joke was that this Blogger was conceived; in case one of his brothers did not come back from the  war. Very Sparta. The Saipan brother came home, and used his G.I. Bill to obtain his Bachelors and Masters from Columbia University. One of his proudest memorabilia was his diplomas, signed by the then President of the university, General Dwight David Eisenhower. In was through my brother’s good graces, that this Blogger got to meet Kerensky, the  revolutionary head of the democratic Provisional government of pre-Bolshevik  Russia; who had Lenin in his power and yet did not execute him, dooming millions to horrific fates...

Once upon a time in Berkeley, there was an Underground newspaper called the BERKELEY BARB. Being Berkeley, it was not radical enough. There was a strike at the BERKELEY BARB, and a new word order was created, THE BERKELEY TRIBE. “The  Berkeley Tribe  was a radical  counter cultural underground newspaper  published in Berkeley, California  from 1969 to 1972. It was formed after a bitter staff dispute split the nationally known  Berkeley Barb  into new competing underground weeklies. In July 1969 some 40 editorial and production staff with the  Barb  went on strike for three weeks, then started publishing the  Berkeley Tribe  as a rival paper… It became a leading publication of the New Left. Berkeley Tribe  quickly positioned itself as more radical, counter-cultural and politically astute than Scherr's  Barb ; it soon became more successful, surpassing an initial press run of 20,000 reaching a high point of 60,000 c...