Did you by any chance get suspended from your job this week? No? Then you already had a better week than Boston talk-radio host Jimmy Severino.

Correction: make that talk-radio host “Jay Severin.” Sometimes I have to remind myself that he doesn’t actually use his real name. Just like I have to remind myself that he didn’t actually win a Pulitzer prize, or get a graduate journalism degree from Boston University.

What I don’t have to remind myself of is that, blatant entertainer aside, his is a particularly hateful presence. This week the bigoted bile he broadcasts bubbled up big enough to get him tossed off the air indefinitely.

One of his offending recent remarks was to call illegal immigrants, “criminaliens.” What’s odd about that particular offense being part of his suspension this week is that he has used it for years. Along with calling Hillary Clinton a “fat, lying witch,” President Obama a “traitor,” and asking his listeners to agree with him that Obama’s wife, Michelle, is “ugly.”

What made his remarks somewhat more disturbing this week was his connecting his trademark tirades against “dirty Mexicans” with the present swine flu crisis. (Which, as a gift only Severin could savor, began in Mexico.)

Calling Mexicans, “the lowest form of primitives,” Severin went on to say, “So now, in addition to venereal disease and the other leading exports of Mexico -- women with mustaches and VD -- now we have Swine Flu.”

A spokesperson for WTKK-FM has only said that the suspension is “indefinite.” Meanwhile, Severin is huddling with his lawyers. Have you been huddling with your lawyers this week? See?

The week has also been less than stellar for Boston Red Sox owner John Henry. Henry, known for being something of a sphinx when it comes to public speaking and social geniality in general, surprised Bostonians this week when a big glossy story in Boston Magazine ( "The Owner Takes A Wife" ) describes in intimate detail Henry’s courtship and engagement of his soon-to-be third wife.

It would be like the legendarily mute Greta Garbo suddenly coming back and doing everything from Leno to Oprah, in addition to launching a blog and tweeting from her dressing room while taping “Dancing With The Stars.”

We’d gotten used to seeing Henry in spring training wearing a big wide-brimmed hat to protect his pale-white skin. When we did hear him, it was a soft, squeaky voice that some found, well, creepy.

Now we get to read his love letters (okay, emails) to his intended, and they are, well, creepy, too.

Talk about zero to sixty in the TMI department.

Not only that, the article was written by Henry’s fiancee’s friend. No mention of Henry’s daughter, nor his other two marriages. The owner may be taking a wife, but apparently the new wife is taking only what she wants of the owner’s history.

But what do I know? She may become the greatest stepmom ever. But Henry will not live this embarrassment down. And will undoubtedly look to have a better week.

Alas, Egypt’s pigs won’t have that option. There, almost all of the country’s 300,000 pigs were slaughtered as a precaution against the spread of Swine Flu. That, is a bad week.