Frank Pitz

Domestic Violence

Allow me to lead in to the following short piece - 500 words or so. I do a weekly opinion column for a local neighborhood newspaper here in Philly, this excerpt is taken from this week's column. The entire column was one of those weird items in the news, tongue in cheek kind of things. However, I wrapped it with the following; though what follows is neither weird or tongue in cheek...it is dead serious. The grist for the piece here... (posted by Frank 2 years 276 days ago.)

Death in Triplicate?

Okay, so Novak died; at least the media quackers-well, perhaps a few-didn't attempt to lionize him ala Cronkite. Now I know it's not nice-or politically correct-to speak ill of the dead, Karma and all that. But, Bob Novak was an unabashed liar/propagandist as well as quite possibly a traitor for his "outing" of CIA operative Valerie Plame. In a perfect-old school-journalism world Bob Novak would have been figuratively "tarred and... (posted by Frank 2 years 279 days ago.)

"War is not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things"

It begins slowly, almost inoffensively, in numbers so small that we tend to not pay much attention to them-except for the families associated with those numbers. On July 8, 1959 U.S. Army Master Sergeant Chester Ovnard and Major Dale Buis died in Vietnam , the first of 58,261 casualties to happen over the next three decades. On March 21, 2003 Lieutenant Therrel Shane from Gulfport... (posted by Frank 2 years 301 days ago.)