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       Bear with me. I’m talking about being funny. This is not what I expected to be writing about today, and nothing feels the least bit funny to me about the world I’m living in – or about the stumbling leg pain and imbalance the aging process has bequeathed me, not to mention . . . huh? What did you say? Oh yeah, I can barely hear.

     I have the argument dozens of different ways. Video of Congresswoman Lisa McClain (from March 25th) is routinely recycled: Trump could have the cure for cancer and the democrats would still be upset. Normally this is the kind of trolling or red-meat-to-the-MAGA-base kind of statement I ignore, but these are not normal times. In critical thinking there are several ‘smell tests’ that can be applied to check the soundness of an argument. Fallacies and contradictions are always things for which critical thinkers should lookout.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a wide-ranging bill designed to boost online privacy, including giving people more control over data collected by technology companies.