One of the more maddening things about the far left is thier tendacy to choose scum for thier heroes. Mailer, like Jimmy Carter and Bill Walton was a friend and supporter of Abbie Hoffman. Abbie Hoffman was an anarchist who advocated random acs of vandalism. I would love to burn down all three of thier houses (when Norman was still alive of course) and when they compained, say I was just doing what your pal Abbie told me to do.