Sea Legs

In order to raise money for the police, the homeless and other beneficiaries of the American Dream, a well-meaning gentleman has attempted to walk northwards across the ocean in a barrel-shaped bubble but ended up beached, after the usual fashion of sociopolitical allegory, some thirty miles in the wrong direction. A commendably deadpan communiqué from a Florida sheriff's office stated that he "came across some complications," presumably of a saline persuasion and in nature not altogether unaquatic. It appears that the Hollywood orthodoxy about chasing your dreams may be subject to certain paradoxes if you chase them in a giant hamster-wheel.