Here’s the text of Pres. Obama’s farewell address.

Read it here. Read the fact-checked version here. While Pres. Obama was going high, I was going low, answering Irma from North Carolina, a Trump supporter who suggested I buy a ticket to any foreign country: Ha ha ha ha ha and ha. See the news tonight? Russia has been helping Trump for at last five years. …

When you’re a wife…

So Corey Cogdell-Unrein earned a bronze medal in the Rio Olympics for trap shooting, and the local paper, The Chicago Tribune, trumpeted that here. As you can see from the headline at the link, the athlete’s name was featured prominently, followed by her relationship (she’s a wife) to a local celebrity, Bears defensive lineman Mitch Unrein. It’s …

Have you read “The Warmth of Other Suns?”

That wonderful book (full name: “The Warm of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration) by Isabel Wilkerson charted the movement of Southern African Americans to economic opportunities in the north, in Detroit, in Chicago, and yes, in Hartford (particularly to the Frog Hollow section, the subject of a book-I’m-finishing). This says that gun …

So I went to church on Sunday…

…and even though that is a rare event and I was kind of rude to a nice man who was trying to welcome me as I brushed past him, I went to hear my friend, the Rev. Sara Capen Salomons speak. Here is what she said, and to be honest, I felt like she was …

Guess I’ll bypass Chick-fil-A, then.

The chicken king, Dan Cathy, has a gay problem. You have to wonder what would make Cathy — normally, an astute businessman — say such a thing. And, FYI? Leave the Muppets out of it. Can someone buy Bryan Fischer a mouth-sized cork? Or a maybe a massive Deluxe? UPDATE: Sherry sends this, Boston Mayor Thomas …