Speakeasy

Published May 19, 2008 4:00am ET



Shut up at last.”

– The epitaph on the already-carved tombstone of the very much alive Reid Buckley, brother of William F. Buckley Jr. Reid’s book, “An American Family: The Buckleys,” was just released last week.

“I, like so many other residents, drink the Michelle Rhee Kool-Aid.”

– Mayor Adrian Fenty at an Institute for Education breakfast last week