It’s hard to keep a good man down, but it’s even harder to keep a bad man out. Hunter Biden is back. Best known as an influence-peddler, crackhead, whoremonger, struggling artist, and innocent man who got a presidential pardon from his father, the prodigal son and former first son reappeared on X, formerly Twitter, in mid-May. “Just the place for a Snark!” cries the sailor as he lands the passengers who want to hunt the mythical creature in Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem of 1876, “The Hunting of the Snark.” Social media rewards the worst in human nature, and Biden is to vice as Martha Stewart is to baking. He cracked the app’s code and latched on to its algorithm like a hungry baby or a lobbyist for Ukrainian natural gas. He now has half a million followers. That’s a lot of snark.Americans love to forgive a sinner. The redemption script is as old as former President Bill Clinton. Biden is a penitent addict, seven years sober, and America has a chronic drug problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that illegal drug overdoses killed nearly 70,000 Americans in 2025. That figure was down from 2024, probably due to states handing out Naloxone anti-opioid kits, but it’s still higher than 2024’s casualties from kidney disease (55,081), liver disease and cirrhosis (52,274), and more formal methods of suicide (48,824). The subtitle of “The Hunting of the Snark” is “An Agony in Eight Fits.”