Rabbi Brian talks about how our ideas of how things ought to be are “helpful suggestions” and other people’s “helpful suggestions” are “judgments.”
(This week’s shout-out to ECR&DR.)

Mark was wrong
Mark is smart. He’s one of my smarter friends. He is able to contort his words so as to not split an infinitive, as I just did in this very sentence. (Mark would have written, so as not to split an infinitive.) ⟡⟡⟡ Four or five years ago, Mark’s youngest child—assigned female at birth and named Clara—told him that they

