It could just as easily been in The Onion. It is one of the most hilarous things I've read in months, and so true when it comes to left wing "intellectuals."
That's exactly what I was thinking. I've stated for years that people do what they want to do because they want to do it and philosophy is simply a way of rationalizing what they want to do.
Philosophy has always been about mental masturbation, but you have to take all the courses to be able to say that with any degree of authority.