"Intellectual"

Mark Steyn on Dominique Devillipan:

Here's this byronic French poet with big hair, lost in a tangle of abstract nouns and this is what passes for "intellectual" to the casual observer.

Hmmm.... sound like anyone else getting lots of glowing headlines over the last year and a half or so? Brilliant. I don't know anything about Dominique, but the phrasing describes so many people, actually -- to a "T".