Here's an hilarious thing.
The Republicans -- the party of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin -- are attacking Sonia Sotomayor's intellect.
Suddenly intellectualism is important for a party that thinks the jury is still out on, you know, science. The party that ran several candidates for president who, when asked about it in a televised debate, admitted that they don't "believe" in evolution -- essentially embracing the creationist notion that the Earth is 5,000 years old.