Emeritus* Professor of International Affairs Lewis and Clark College Portland, Oregon  Curriculum Vitae** Contact Information For those not acquainted with academic jargon, *this means roughly "retired, but with some honor still intact" **and this means roughly "about me"

2010-2011 Travels (Europe, East Africa, Southeast Asia)
Earlier travels

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing -- for the sheer fun and joy of it -- to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it. -- I.F. ("Izzy") Stone

Too much sanity is madness, and maddest is to see life as it is and not as it should be. -- Miguel De Cervantes

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. -- E.B. White

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off -- Gloria Steinem (with thanks to Manik for bringing this one to my attention)

Life is short and we have not too much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love. Make haste to be kind. -- Henri Frederic Amiel, Journal 16 December 1868