The Week in Birthdays, June 16 to 22

Beverly Ann Gibson, J.R. Bailey, Don & Dewey, Everything is Everything, Shirley & Company, Johnny & Jackey, Chico Buarque, O. C. Smith, Mitty Collier, Girlschool

This week in “Are We There Yet?: The Short Road to Authoritarianism,” I had conversations with two people I know well who still think 1) I am overreacting, 2) ICE is only rounding up bad guys, and 3) Everything is going to be fine. (Wrong. Wrong! And Wrong?) In fairness, I had these conversations before the rhetoric murdered an elected official and her …