Profile of Bob Wakeham

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• A crisis of their own making
  When Danny Williams decided two years ago to vie for beatification from the province’s oncologists and pathologists by fattening their ...
• Premiers and penises
  Now first off today, readers eagerly in search of highbrow edification, I present a snippet of little-known history to illustrate the fact that ...
• Perhaps Westcott has foot-in-mouth disease?
  Much like an athlete who bounces from team to team, suitcases plastered with logos, having accumulated ordinary credentials interspersed with the ...
• A pause from your regularly scheduled programming
  For fans of television sports and outdoor pursuits, this has to be a perfect-storm time for the jock/woodsman, when hockey, baseball and football ...
• Worth a read
  Due strictly to the nature of the reporting business, especially that part of the job that requires the scrutiny of high-profile figures in ...
• Hunters, guns and common sense
  Weather permitting, I’ll be traipsing down woods paths near Flatrock today, my beagle Tandy nearby, and a 12-gauge shotgun in my arms, looking to ...
• Hurricanes — a reporter’s delight
  It was a day 20 years or so ago, longer than I care to remember, when sirens began to wail loudly on Prince Philip Parkway just a hundred yards ...
• Misogyny rears its ugly head
  A preface, if you will permit, to this week’s entry. A caller to an open-line radio show, one of those cerebral lightweights who seem to have ...
• Singing the same old song
  My earliest introduction to the quandary in which some Newfoundland journalists are placed when covering Quebec’s immoral stubbornness on ...
• Danny has spoken
  And a fair amount of hypocrisy, as well, especially when the condemnation is delivered from government pulpits occupied by the same preachers who ...
• Making decisions based on the dollars saved
  But it’s equally easy to see where that reputation for coldness — and a “just the facts, Ma’am, just the facts” philosophy with little room for ...
• Baseball and politics — guess what’s more exciting
  But to baseball first: throughout Saturday, there was constant chatter on the television sports channels about the deadline when players could be ...
• Ways to cheer a cranky columnist
  So, with that defensive qualifier in place, let me just say that my life would be slightly better off if: • Ryan Snodden, CBC’s ...
• Too easy to cheat
  It's called a Pleasure Craft Operator Card - a harmless enough name - but boy, it's a doozy of a farce. Recent tragedies out west have drawn ...
• The smell of mixing politics and journalism
  I'm not particularly anxious on this Saturday to exploit Ryan Cleary as column fodder. Cleary seems like a good enough fella (as far as I could ...
• Down for the count
  I can't help but wonder how the spirit of my Grandfather Joe Judge, a man who was blessed with an impressive combination of integrity and ...
• Treasure found by a brook
  There's a chance it's dry as a bone by now, or so covered in alders that it's totally camouflaged and undetectable forever by even the most ...
• A survivor rewarded
  If I found myself in Ed Roberts' imaginary shoes, I'd be taking a careful, daily perusal of The Telegram's obituary page, just to ensure that a ...
• Stick to boats, not lectures
  I don't know what Rob Crosbie looks like - not having travelled "in his social circles" (to steal the infamous phrase used last year by a ...
• Keeping the auditor general out
  All that angst in Ottawa about the refusal by a committee of parliamentarians to allow Auditor general Sheila Fraser to have a gander at MPs' ...
• Elbow to the head hello, Quebec
  Whenever a Newfoundland premier has attempted to take on the role of The Man of La Mancha and "fight the unbeatable foe" - our nasty French ...
• The dishonourable Mr. Wakeham
  Before heading off on my first fishing trip of the spring tomorrow (and avoiding next weekend's Victoria Day invaders of the woods, most of whom ...
• When premiers get touchy
  If you function blissfully outside the often irritating but occasionally revealing world of blogs, you probably missed a recent piece of ...
• Plenty to talk about
  So much to write about, such limited space in which to go there. I've never tired of firing fastballs at the heads of prominent oinkers who've ...
• The aging of Bob
  Age - that definitive marker of time above the turf - has never been a source of much worry on my part. My early, devil-may-care lifestyle ...
• Biting bits
  Out of the local loop for over a week (as a result of an enjoyable exile to the U.S. to visit again my Newfoundland senior-plus citizens), it ...
• Being lippy to score political points
  With all the hand wringing and tut-tut-tutting aimed at the "inflammatory" language used by Danny Williams and his chief honcho and potential ...
• They call that justice?
  The more I've thought about the recent, highly debatable decision to reduce pedophile Barry Oake's jail sentence to house arrest, I've wondered ...
• The blue machine roars ahead
  That byelection in Topsail Tuesday to replace the soon-to-be-forgotten Elizabeth Marshall - she the once highly respected personage who plunged ...
• Dangerous situation rapidly getting worse
  If the consequences of the decidedly unsuccessful efforts to sober up much of the adult population of Davis Inlet and now Natuashish weren't so ...