Revelations at PittsburghLIVE let the cat out of the bag, translating what them intellectuals have been saying:

Code phrase: 'I find Heidegger's works disappointingly unoriginal, relying far too heavily on Kierkegaard's groundbreaking views on despair.'
Secret meaning: "Can someone have my mom and dad go on TV again and claim people are unfairly persecuting me? I'd do it myself, but I'm busy thinking up dog names for my enemies."

If this keeps up, parents will stop shelling out serious money to send their kids off to college to learn to speak po-mo. Then what, eh? Kids would be learning engineering and such, and wouldn't need politicos to defend their jobs from better educated foreigners. Why, they might even learn to think for themselves!  ¶ 7:32 AM