Jus Play’N Around is the S.S. Minnow of the Silver Strand and, for the Navy, the tip of a very large ecological iceberg — “Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” – Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley If a boat washes up on the beach, and no one seems to care, did the boat really wash up on the beach? That is the question posed by Jus…

That time I witnessed a huge, shining blob zip over San Diego Bay — First, I need to declare that I am of sound mind and body. I’m neither a whacko nor garden-variety conspiracy theory nut job, of which, sadly, one can find in abundance across the land these days. My family and friends describe me as one of the most down-to-earth, rational people…

In this Oscar-worthy film, it’s High Noon for the black hats of American capitalism — Nomadland is a poem of a film. Viewers set sail amid the vast majesty of the American West aboard Van Halen, an intrepid vessel that doubles as a cramped home for Fern, the film’s anti-hero of sorts, portrayed by Frances McDormand with all the quiet, flinty resolve of a 19th…

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity … in short, the period was so far like the present period that some…

Yes, says a man who did it. But it’s not the fall that’ll kill you. — Is it possible to parachute into a category 5 hurricane — or any hurricane for that matter — and survive? The very premise seems ludicrous and untestable. Intuitively, our intrepid parachutist would surely be tossed, twisted and torn assunder by one of the greatest forces in nature. It would be…

Midair (Lyons Press) is available in hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook. Read Midair: Foreword | Read Midair: Chapter One | Read Midair: Chapter Two |Read Midair: Chapter Twenty-Eight The annals of aviation are replete with near-miraculous stories of survival. There is, of course, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, who flew into a…