‘The melancholy of all things done’ is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
A coal mine greets you with only one sentiment, then hammers it: ‘This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people. This is not a place for people’. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Pearl Harbor? Michael Bay doing a movie about the single most devastating, most holy day in United States military history? Why, that’s like the Three Stooges doing a Holocaust movie. Or Barney doing ‘Hamlet’. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Omalu first found the tau ‘threads’ in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and published his findings in 2005, in the journal ‘Neurosurgery.’ – Jeanne Marie Laskas
You can’t think ‘Dole’ without thinking ‘Bob Dole’ and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Whether we buy into the rhetoric or not, one thing has been made clear: Illegal immigration is a problem reaching a breaking point, and something must be done. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
‘Bad Boys’, which Bay made when he was just twenty-eight, having never made a movie before, having done a string of commercials and music videos with artists ranging from Donny Osmond to Meat Loaf, grossed more than $140 million worldwide. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
One cheerleader per season per NFL squad is chosen to attend the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. All season long, the cheerleaders speculate about who will be chosen. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Women are more emotional than men, so they must attach emotion to their memories. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Neither Neil Armstrong nor Michael Collins had a mental breakdown after returning from the moon. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese – everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Buzz was, of course, the second man to walk on the moon. Buzz made a rap video, ‘Rocket Experience,’ with Snoop Dogg. He did the cha-cha and the fox-trot and was eliminated in the second round of season ten of ‘Dancing with the Stars’. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
A face isn’t an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
The new disease was named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the NFL fervently and repeatedly denied that such a thing had anything to do with the league or its players. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
‘Affable’ is the word that often comes up from reporters, even staunch critics, who meet Lou Dobbs for the first time. – Jeanne Marie Laskas