Profile of Pam Frampton

All articles of Pam Frampton

• Warning: smoking can be hazardous to your logic
  Seriously, there are people who believe this stuff.What I didn’t quite grasp until recently is that there are actually people out there who say ...
• Don’t touch that Doyle
  I just hope his Pontiac GTO is gassed up and ready to go, and that his dad’s ticker is working well enough so that he can lend a hand.Oh wait — ...
• Adventures in tourism
  "If my best wines mislike thy taste, and my best service win thy frown, then tarry not, I bid thee haste; there's many another Inn in town." - ...
• They're not always golden years
  "We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it." - Frank A. Clark (1911-1991), journalist and cartoon ...
• The glamour trap
  "You are beautiful no matter what they say. Words can't bring you down." - From "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera In case you haven't been ...
• A blast from the past
  "If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development." - Aristotle Memorial University is getting ready to officially ...
• Sexploitation for sale
  Part 2 in a two-part series "Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime." - Herbert Ward, Episcopalian priest We've all been ...
• Tracking cyber-creeps
  "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Ed Billard is an ...
• Law and order in cyberspace
  Ever since the Internet has been part of our daily lives, there have been the inevitable comparisons to the Wild, Wild West. For some, that ...
• Death goes au naturel
  "Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous ...
• A matter grave of concern
  A sleek black dog leaps gracefully into the air, intent on the green ball his master has thrown on the verdant grounds of the Anglican Cathedral ...
• Flirting with Facebook
  You'd think that after giving your mother a nice dinner and some presents on Mother's Day, she wouldn't try to wreck your happy marriage. You ...
• Talk about your mixed messages
  A black box with white lettering on your computer screen contains a simple message: "341 days to wait for a psychiatrist appointment. …" ...
• Gobbledygook, blather and other claptrap
  "Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk ...
• Eating by the numbers
  A funny thing happened in the world of fast food the other day. Bucking the trend toward healthier options, Kentucky Fried Chicken in the United ...
• And you are ...?
  The argument against allowing comments to be posted anonymously to media websites just got ramped up a notch. Firefighters in Halifax are waging ...
• A tale of two cities
  There's a city called Chula Vista in California, home to 230,000 people and smack dab in the middle between San Diego and Mexico, with just seven ...
• Ways and means
  Danny Williams' government delivered what I affectionately dubbed "The Fudge-It Budget" this week - a Tory blueprint (pardon the pun) that ...
• The names change, the blame's the same
  "Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos." - Doug Coupland,Canadian novelist If the premier and the health minister truly ...
• The final frontier
  "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins (1912-1990), American editor, ...
• Behaving badly
  "Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet them on your way down." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933), American playwright A woman flipped ...
• We need more animal cruelty cops
  Anyone who's ever reported finding a stray dog or an injured bird in St. John's knows how efficient and compassionate the city's Humane Services ...
• And justice for some
  "Naming offenders removes the shroud of secrecy under which they lurk, and increases their future accountability. It acts as a deterrent to ...
• Naming names
  Imagine if a prominent member of a large Newfoundland community was found guilty of having downloaded more than 300,000 pornographic images - ...
• Ready, willing, enable
  "The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the ...
• Heritage for sale everything must go
  Singer: Three towers, three towers, three towers so high, You can't see the harbour, the sun or the sky, Arterial road makes the whole scene ...
• Weve got a right to our views
  Go to just about any Canadian city and you can find a section that looks familiar. Chances are, it will contain all or some of the following: ...
• Trash talk and truth-telling
  "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without ...
• Long live the Republic of Words
  "We read to know we are not alone." - C.S. Lewis I recently joined a new group - one whose members number in the millions and are scattered ...
• Lessons in humility
  "Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self." - Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), English preacher and author Jim Walsh may be nearly 30 ...