[RonDog]

I don't like it when Ann reasons from a false hypothesis!

Nah. She is just using the SUBJUNCTIVE mood...

From www.drgrammar.org:

Subjunctive? If I were a rich man...

"The subjunctive mood expresses something that is contrary to fact, that is conditional, hypothetical, or purely imaginative...

i.e., "If Democrats Had Brains..."

[ml/nj]

I guess you didn't take logic in college, or if you did you don't remember much of it.

ML/NJ