God in Heaven, please surround this family with healing love and light, and embrace them with the warmth of your boundless grace.

Amen.

One thing that has bugged me about this Blasey Ford thing from the beginning is Mark Judge. Doesn’t it seem odd to you that this “repressed memory” that suddenly surfaced during a therapy session in 2012 would include the name Mark Judge? She didn’t really know these boys, didn’t travel in the same circles, but after 30 years she recalled him? I can understand Kavanaugh’s name coming into her head because he was suddenly in the news and named as a potential SCOTUS pick of Romney’s. But why would she recall Judge???

Then I was watching a news segment and they were interviewing some other classmates, and the interviewer asked about Mark Judge. The classmate talked about how messed up this guy is, how they almost lost him a few years ago, recovering addict, and how basically he’s kind of fucked up his life. Then it hit me. The jackals that built this hoax researched background on everyone Kavanaugh went to school with and Judge was handpicked to be the “accomplice” precisely because he was messed up. The others are all very successful and with great support structures…difficult to overcome their built-in credibility, and they would defend themselves (and Kavanaugh by proximity) vigorously.

But Mark Judge was a damaged man, and easy prey. Like the pride of lions who single out the injured gazelle, they had their man. As a bonus, turns out he had written a couple of sparsely read books about his heavy-partying days at Prep which was chock full of backdrop that they could use in building their story. Jackpot.

Sorry swamp…nice try, but it didn’t work.