Today Jack will release his Trebuchet (a gravity catapult) upon his fifth grade class — as well as a small torsion catapult (made with an office clip and less historically interesting). We went “old school” for this Trebuchet — using all original material from metal, wood, leather, twine, and stone. It works like a charm and will put your eye out at 30 feet! Leslie will only let us throw tinfoil balls and will not allow us to use historically accurate diseased animals or stones. Now, the other legal blogs will fear us. Those geeks at Volokh conspiracy laughed at me. Who is laughing now, Eugene? Ha, ha, ha, who is laughing now?! . . . Now, if we can only find a little castle . . .
