Actually, this might just be a knock on Yale. I was the hiring partner at a major law firm for a number of years. We typically hired our associates from the Top 15 or 20 law schools. The kids rom Harvard, Columbia, Boalt Hall, UCLA, Texas, NYU, etc. were typically terrific: bright and eager with good research and writing skills and a modicum of business sense. The kids from Yale were a disaster: arrogant, no interest in being practical, and not particulary good writers.
I don't know if that was a result of the types of students they accepted or a product of the Yale Law curriculum, but it was a consistent phenomenon. (Of course, the logical question is "Then why did you keep hiring Yale kids?" And the answer is because one of our managing partners was a Yale grad, and he would unilaterally make summer clerk offers to Yale students. Thankfully, none of them ever came back to the firm after graduation.)

You know, I like Alito. I like him a lot. He'll probably be a better judge than Miers. But there's some remarkable unintentionally hilarious stuff out there from some Anti-Miers folk. Consider Ramesh Ponnuru today, just now:

I thought Alito did well. I don't think he told that opening anecdote very smoothly, but that's okay: To the extent his remarks lacked polish, they drew sympathy and helped his basic I'm-one-of-you message.

Put out the torch OJ.