Profile of Pam Frampton

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• The naked truth
  “Doesn’t everyone hang out — literally — with their friends topless and have a controversial fashion photographer take snaps and then years later ...
• The naked truth
  “Doesn’t everyone hang out — literally — with their friends topless and have a controversial fashion photographer take snaps and then years later ...
• What I said and didn’t say
  “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright In a ...
• A matter of time
  “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”— Lois McMaster Bujold, American authorMedically assisted ...
• Sorry seems to be the easiest word
  “(T)here’s an art in being abject. When done right, a mea culpa can do more than save your career, it can bolster it. Just ask Hugh ...
• OPINION: Warning: Muskrat Falls is haunted
  I’m on the fence when it comes to Muskrat Falls. And yes, that’s despite the ridiculous assertion hurled out there by some that because I work ...
• There’s more than one kind of tyranny
  “Making someone die in a way that others approve, but he believes a horrifying contradiction of his life, is a devastating, odious form of ...
• Rush to judgment
  “How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.”— Daniel Webster, American statesman (1782-1852)I ...
• Renting out The Rooms
  “Immerse yourself in our culture at Newfoundland and Labrador's largest public cultural space.” — From The Rooms website There’s an ...
• Attack arguments, not people
  “Words are the most powerful thing in the universe. … Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.”— ...
• Down with canned content
  “More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly ...
• Fighting for the right to die
  “Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”— Dylan ThomasI’m glad Tony Nicklinson is dead. I only wish it ...
• The edge of summer
  “All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful ...
• A wine lover's lament
  "Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating, and to me as necessary." - Ernest ...
• Why rush the dam project?
  "Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy ...
• Mount Cashel’s livid scars
  “(A) neglected child means a child who is found living with vicious or disreputable persons.”Ironically, from a definition of “a child in need of ...
• Trotting out truisms ... and other twists of the tongue
  "You must be calm before you can utter oracles." - Henry David Thoreau If you don't have anything nice to say, the old saying goes, don't say ...
• Trotting out truisms …
  “You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”— Henry David ThoreauIf you don’t have anything nice to say, the old saying goes, don’t say ...
• No fan of the flag
  “… The people have become accustomed to the flag and have reconciled themselves to it.” — From a website on Newfoundland history created for ...
• Nothing but the truth
  “I think you can see the potential for abuse there.” — Toby Mendel, executive director of the Centre for Law and Democracy, on Newfoundland and ...
• Bitter tweet
  “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.” — Germaine Greer A Canadian Press story this week about the poorest attendance ...
• Control freaks
  “Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German playwright, ...
• It’s your call
  “Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the ...
• War is peace
  “For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, “Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.” — Shakespeare, Sonnet 147 Oh Canada, what a ...
• A letter from a poison pen
  “It was driven by a petulance and frustration, and it had the tone of a president with an approval rating of 35 per cent. He’s sounding less ...
• Guerrilla gardening
  “Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.” — From “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu (and, unofficially, the dandelion’s ...
• Letter to a monster
  “Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.”— Bodhidharma,5th and 6th century Buddhist monkDear Michael ...
• Pill plague
  “Donna was a bad junkie. Every day she was getting the pills.” — From “The Death of Donna Whalen,” by Michael Winter Michael Winter’s 2010 ...
• The feds and fuzzy logic
  “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.” — From ...
• Another day, another scandal
  "Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed." - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki A ...