Well Don, I am truly jealous and I am NOT a jealous person by nature. I would have loved to have sat down with Mr. Pournelle and chewed the fat a while. I remember in one of his works he mentioned the 'Danes and to beware of them ( the Mundanes, that is). He also mentioned that he would himself like to have sat down with Niels Bohr or Albert Einstein but thought that a lesser light as himself would be inflicting his limited person upon so great a mind and would have wound up wasting the time of the greater intellect. I would have disagreed with him on a couple of levels but I appreciated his sentiment.

It was Pournelle's writing (and I assume a correspondence in his actual life!) that introduced me to Pimm's Cup or Pimm's #1, one of the first cocktails, kind of a gin sling. Up until recently it has been hard to find but worth the hunt.

Oh, you've probably already guessed that I pretty much agree with his politics.