struggle for tinniency

A windchime on the upstairs front porch is tinnient with hints of "Amazing Grace."

The electronic age is a marvel, isn’t it, a marvel and a wonder. It amazes me, would astonish George Washington. Throughout each day news arrives, causing the device in my pocket to tingle tinniently. NewYorkTimes, WashingtonPost, comic strips that're not in PCNewsHerald: Pooch Cafe, Calvin & Hobbes, Doonesbury. Several times a week I go online to catch up on Rudy Park, Cul de Sac, Get Fuzzy, Candorville. Candorville surfaced when Theron Heir took sabbatical and left Darrin Bell in charge of Rudy and the cybercafe. During election season Ted Rall, Pat Oliphant and deliciously vicious Doonesbury satire.

BleacherReport focuses on college football, PennState Nittany Lions. Lions because our eight years in Pennsylvania 1976 to '84, Joe Paterno was the best known and most popular face in the state. Joe’s fall from grace was horrific inside and out; not guilty, the man was naive, a product of his generation. He didn't know WTH to do about the perp, living and coaching in a day and age when nobody else knew either, so Joe took the hit for society. Nittany Lion is PennState mascot because once there were lions on nearby Nittany Mountain. May still be.

Military.com brings ongoing news about events in the military services. Not impressed at making an issue of the Drone Medal. Pleased a bill is introduced to ban convening COs from overturning convictions and sentences without right of appeal or secretarial or presidential review. Unimpressed that sequestration is suspending tuition assistance programs for active duty military; to save money, cutout and let Karzai sink; close Egypt's account; bulldoze Rayburn, Russell and Dirksen Buildings and sell occupants a oneway ticket home. 

Jorge Bergoglio flew off to Rome for the weekend and, not wanting the other redcaps to know about it, left his teddy bear at home in Buenos Aires. Now he's all dressed up in white and can’t go home again. Jorge’s a Jesuit, hope he's an intellectual, pray he's no bigot.

George Washington would be amazed we could watch white smoke live on a cell phone in a car halfway round the globe.

Word: tinnient. Why not tinniency. As in the tinniency of my tinnitus makes my brain struggle to force your mumble into words. Unfortunately brain doesn't bother stringing random words into intelligible thoughts. Thus I smile unknowingly but avoid asking you to repeat, again, louder. 

TomW