Is our beloved Barnegat Lighthouse a bit tipped? If not, why does virtually every panoramic photograph ever taken of Barney lean toward his being askew?

Some deniers will call it an optical illusion, which might be the case … or not so much. More-obstinate Barney backers will assert it’s the surrounding world being out of kilter. Well, I’m out to find out, with your help.

First, this is not even remotely suggesting the monument is structurally stressed. Hell, that Italian Pisa place looks ridiculously abend but is deemed structurally sound.

As to my testing the lighthouse for uprightness, I toyed with the facile idea of simply lowering a plumb bob from…