[snarks_when_bored]

Norman Mailer's got a pretty bad track record when it comes to sniffing out evil. Does the name Jack Henry Abbott ring a bell? If not, read Theodore Dalrymple's Of Mailer and Murder. Chilling.

[Gay State Conservative]

Does the name Jack Henry Abbott ring a bell?

Yup.He was the scumbag that Mailer and a few of his friends "discovered" while he was doing a long prison stretch for some serious crime.

Mailer and his pals told the parole board that this clown was so talented that he must be allowed to "contribute" from outside a prison cell...and the parole board agreed.

And then....a couple of weeks after his release...he murdered a waiter in an argument over the use of a bathroom.