I remember reading once the contention that there are, at any given time in history, only about four hundred really influential people in the world, and that as such it’s really not too surprising that there are a lot of direct and indirect connections between them. Jerry Pournelle was indisputably one of those four hundred for our times.
Survival – PC Kills- on the water too
It seems that the same insane “PC” mindset that has decided, against all and ongoing evidence, that the best way to deal with terrorists and pirates is to render all of their potential victims as helpless as possible has invaded into life at sea. I’m very, very sorry to hear it.
Survival – The Magic of the Crooked Stick… and Why it Works
Even at that age, though, I had some rudimentary research ability, and I remember looking up “boomerang” in different references and finding out to my surprise that returning boomerangs were only one category of a larger type, and that larger type was in itself a part of the still larger category of throwing sticks as weapons, all of which seem to have been crooked. This puzzled me greatly, I understood that a fairly specific shape would be required of a throwing stick that would return to its owner (at least if it didn’t hit anything), but why would it be that throwing-sticks in general, that did not return to the thrower, should be crooked?