Osler's Razor

I have been devoting Wednesdays here at the blog to profiling my classmates in the Yale Law School class of 1990. This week we meet Heathcliff.

There were a lot of characters in our class, but few were as memorable as Heathcliff. He was unique in that he had a parent who was formerly incarcerated, which allowed for insights few of the rest of us could offer. He was definitely an out-of-the-box thinker who often had provocative ideas in class. Also, he was a cat. And had a flame-throwing gravy robot.

Heathcliff came to Yale Law fresh out of Yale College, where he lived in Stiles College and wrote for the sports section of the Yale Daily News. At the law school, he was Notes Editor for the Law Journal and active in the Federalist Society.

After law school, Heathcliff clerked on the 3rd Circuit for Judge Stapleton, and then in the Ninth Circuit for Judge Alex Kozinski before a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.  After that, he worked for Independent Counsel Ken Starr in the investigation into President Clinton.

Then things got kind of weird. Heathcliff moved into a house with an old lady, and got obsessed with ham, gorillas, and apes. He was sometimes seen flying a ham sandwich at the end of a string, and worked somewhere in the Bush administration. He seemed to have some kind of business making and marketing "message helmets." After that, we kind of lost track of him.

So if you know what happened, drop a line.