Reddit reviews Wasted: Tales of a Genx Drunk

There's some stuff about pretty heavy partying in Mark Judge's book "Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk"

In the book, Mark Judge (who was the 2nd person in the room during Kavanaugh's assault) describes “Bart O’Kavanaugh,” who “puked in someone’s car the other night” and “passed out on his way back from a party.”

I don't know if OP has more, but that Brett Kavanaugh is so heavily featured in a highschool friend's book about teenage alcoholism is the best I can find.

Wasted: Tales of a Genx Drunk

That third witness made his living writing about his debaucherous prep-school exploits. Seriously.

His friend, who vouched for him, has written extensively about their high school parties, including quotes to the effect of 'sometimes a woman says no but her body language means yes.' There's also a line in his, Kavanaugh's, and others' yearbook quotes that say 'Renate Alum' which is how the guys all bragged about sleeping with this woman Renate. Renate herself initially defended Brett, then someone showed this to her.

So I mean, we know 100% he was a douchebag who used women and bragged about it. The question is, what do his abusive friends mean when they say he 'did nothing wrong'? I'll leave a Mark Judge quote to give some extra context:

>Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

I would say it doesn't matter if he is innocent or guilty of past sexual assault.

Brett M. Kavanaugh is unfit for a lifetime appointment to the supreme court justice, the highest court of the land for numerous reasons:

• His name was not on the original list that was released publicly for Supreme Court nominees, although Neil Gorsuch was. (By the way, this seat was stolen from Merrick Garland.)
  
• His name was quickly added after the fact because of his 2009 written paper regarding his radical view of executive powers.
  
• Mitch McConnell was against his nomination because of his long paper trail, but Trump went ahead with it anyway.
  
• Trump is so afraid of Mueller, that he believes Kavanaugh will save him from getting subpoenaed.
  
• IMO, the fact that Trump said he was an incredible guy that has a history without a blemish is rich: birds of a feather flock together
  
• his "originalist" fringe views that a sitting president should not be investigated (i.e. the US president is above the law!)
  
• his clear partisanship (e.g. conspiracy theory blaming revenge from the Clintons)
  
• hypocrite (he himself reveled in crushing Bill Clinton with explicit questions such as “If Monica Lewinsky says that you inserted a cigar into her vagina while you were in the Oval Office area, would she be lying?”)
  
• his drinking buddy Mark G. Judge wrote a memoir about being a drunk in 1997. It's on amazon [here] (https://www.amazon.com/Wasted-Tales-Mark-Gauvreau-Judge/dp/1568381425)
  
• his yearbook shows questionable integrity and character. A far cry from the "good boy" image he described himself as
  
• his explosive-reactive temperament when he had prepared a written speech, not just in the moment; this was with intent.
  
• his evasiveness in answering yes or no or "hypothetical" questions
  
• his Republican party refused to release 90% of documents under the guise of "confidential" but contained damning evidence from email exchanges (e.g. Democratic Senator Leahy's papers were stolen off his desk and the contents were emailed to Kavanaugh with the subject "SPYING"); HE DENIED THIS.
  
• his repeated perjury! I'd say this is the most serious of them all. There will always be doubt whether or not he is being truthful.
  
• he is a closet-racist against Hawaiin's and other minorities
  
• his lack of respect for women's rights on what they should do with their bodies (e.g. he tried to block a 17 year old illegal immigrant girl from getting her LEGAL abortion -- she raised money for the procedure and transportation so she did not use tax payer's dollars)
  
• his lack of empathy for a father whose 14 year old daughter was killed in the Parkland shooting by turning his back on him and refusing a handshake
  
• he was the least liked SCOTUS nominee in recent history
  
  BOTTOMLINE: THERE WERE BETTER NOMINEES OUT THERE!

On the plus side, his book is in demand...

Well, Kavanaugh's friend Mark Judge wrote a book literally titled "Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk" so if he says he doesn't remember I actually believe him on that point.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-mark-judge-high-school-drunk-allegation-alcohol/

https://www.amazon.com/Wasted-Tales-Mark-Gauvreau-Judge/dp/1568381425

Everyone is saying he’s afraid of perjuring himself. Really? Perjury would require him to say something other than, “As my book about my adolescent alcoholism will attest, I couldn’t actually remember enough to make my book interesting. I wish I could remember a darkly comedic incident where i inadvertently saved a girl from being raped, or me being raped by the Monseigneur or anything interesting at all! Maybe I would’ve sold more than 100 copies of my book to my dear mum. But, nope, it’s all just one big blackout.” Honestly, I think he’s humiliated and fearful that his shitty book and his incompetent anonymization technique - “Bart O’Kavanaugh” somehow seems inadequate - is going to be his one and only entry in Wikipedia. He’s a recovering alcoholic with kids and the last thing he wants is for this to humiliate his family more than his tragically mediocre Gen X memoir already does. As his brother’s public public rebuttal of his book noted, “Mark is a solipsist: spoiled as a child, gazing always inward, unable to recognize any pain but his own.”

$1,850 on Amazon, ha.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568381425/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_kv1TBbS6GBWFK

Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk

There's an amazon page for it, but it's out of print.

People who whatever reason actually bought a copy can apparently cash-in though.

And that's absolutely fair. We do need to be aware of corruption and dishonesty. However we have more than just an unsubstantiated he said she said here. We have a "she said, she said to her therapist six years ago when it was not at all politically useful, she said at the very beginning of the nomination process when his name was announced on the short list" vs a "he said he said", where both hes were allegedly drunk and where at least one he has admitted to being a blackout alcoholic at the time. and another source

Edit: link formatting

Edit 2: added another source

> Accusations must be supported by evidence

Oh you mean the sworn affidavits of several women?

Or maybe things written in Kavanaugh's own year book, and that of his friends? Or the book (Wasted: Tales of a Genx Drunk) one his closest friends wrote about drinking "100 kegs" by the end of their senior year of high school (a "club" to which Kavanaugh's own year book showed he belonged), having a party with a stripper, and other drunk escapades?

Or maybe you mean the part where Kavanaugh, now an adult and a married man, reminded his friends "to be very, very vigilant w/r/t confidentiality on all issues and all fronts, including with spouses" after a particularly drunken weekend where he apologized for "growing aggressive after blowing still another game of dice."

This guy's veneer of being an upright moral character is peeling off as well it should.

Wasted: tales of a Gen X drunk.... not to help sell his book, but the author is the guy kavanaugh was with in the room that night... and based on her account, the Gen X drunk guy was the one whose actions gave her the opportunity to escape.. not intentionally, mind you...
https://www.amazon.com/Wasted-Tales-Mark-Gauvreau-Judge/dp/1568381425

the book in question

Why isn't this back in print? 1 seller for 2 grand https://www.amazon.com/Wasted-Tales-Mark-Gauvreau-Judge/dp/1568381425/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1538511774&sr=8-3&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=mark+judge+author&dpPl=1&dpID=71QZ12K0CML&ref=plSrch

From reporter Andrew Wyrich:

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"One of the books authored by Mark Judge, the friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who Dr. Christine Blasey Ford says was in the room when he allegedly sexually assaulted her, is selling for high prices online–but the Internet Archive is making it available for all to see.
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>Judge’s book, Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk, is selling for $1,899 dollars on Amazon and bids on eBay are as high as $229 as of Wednesday afternoon.
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>But, as some people on Twitter spotted, the book is available, for free, on the Internet Archive.
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>Wasted, released in 1997, was written after Judge entered Alcoholics Anonymous and (as one book critic at the New York Times pointed out) is “not even close to being a good book.”
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>The book became relevant, however, after Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) questioned Kavanaugh about a character who appears in the book named “Bart O’Kavanaugh.”
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>“Are you the Bart O’Kavanaugh that he’s referring to? Yes or no?” the senator asked last week.
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>“You’d have to ask him,” Kavanaugh responded."

I'm looking for a PDF / e-book copy of Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk

Will pay $5 Paypal (domestic only, no intl)

https://www.amazon.com/Wasted-Tales-Mark-Gauvreau-Judge/dp/1568381425