a simple prop

Over at Majikthise, a blog (on analytical philosophy and liberal politics) that I have just noticed, Lindsay has the following to say:

Being raised by academic hippies is like being raised by wolves–you can rejoin human society, but you can never integrate seamlessly.

That’s probably true for being raised by academics in general. My daughter is, I fear, doomed.
Read the rest of Lindsay’s post which includes this gem:

My uncle, the philosopher, used to be a heavy smoker. One day when I was about six, I said, no doubt irritatingly,
“If I were you, I wouldn’t smoke.”
He answered, “If you were me, you’d smoke. I smoke.” I thought about that for a long time.