The bigger you get, the more ankle biters you should expect. I'm getting a lot of ankle biters lately, and I'd like to thank them for acknowledging The Bench. Joe Moore, the discredited alderman of Chicago's 49th Ward, recently called me "discredited." Hmmm...This begs the question: If The Bench is "discredited," why do so many people in Rogers Park devote so much time to carefully reading every word I write, and examining every graphic I post? The only answer is that they understand that The Bench is not, in fact, discredited.
There is blog called "The Stench," which came into being recently. I will not honor them with a link; find it yourself. The Stench regularly libels me. Ah well, goes with the territory. The coward (or cowards) who operate The Stench do not have the courage or pride of authorship to reveal their true identities. Amusingly, and pitifully, The Stench loves to call me a liar, but they feature this "disclaimer":
FICTITIOUS DISCLAIMER. The example nations, companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, events, and disclaimers depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, email address, logo, person, places, events, or disclaimers is intended or should be inferred.
PARODIC DISCLAIMER. The example nations, companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, events, and disclaimers are depicted herein solely for purposes of parody. No serious or sincere explanation as to facts or truthfulness regarding any real company, organization, product, domain name, email address, logo, person, places, events, or disclaimers is intended or should be inferred.
There is so much about The Stench's poorly worded disclaimer that is wrong, too much to fully examine here. But let's look at a few of the more obvious bad elements:
Item One: It begins by calling itself a "Fictitious Disclaimer." So, is the disclaimer itself "fictitious," or not real? Put the adjective "fictitious" in front of a noun and the noun is suddenly, well, fictitious. For example, a "fictitious character" is one that is imaginary and does not really exist. To have a "fictitious character," for example, named "Anne Sullivan" is fine, if said character is a beautiful woman who works on a farm in Nebraska and loves horses. If, on the other hand, your "fictitious character" is an alcoholic woman who has fallen off the wagon and works for Alderman Joe Moore in Chicago's 49th Ward, well, that's a bit too real to be considered fictitious.
But that is what The Stench does. It uses my real name, cites my actual activities, and so on, to the point where no reasonable person - or judge - would believe The Stench's disclaimer. Perhaps coward/s who writes The Stench unconsciously called it a "Fictitious Disclaimer" knowing this.
Item Two: The disclaimer says that "The example nations, companies, organizations, products, domain names, e-mail addresses, logos, people, places, events, and disclaimers depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, email address, logo, person, places, events, or disclaimers is intended or should be inferred." This is obviously a lie. If, in fact, "association with any real company, organization, product, domain name, email address, logo, person, places, events, or disclaimers" were really not intended, then the entire purpose of The Stench would be null.
Item Three: "No serious or sincere explanation as to facts or truthfulness regarding any real company, organization, product, domain name, email address, logo, person, places, events, or disclaimers is intended or should be inferred." Let's shorten that, to help understand it. "No serious or sincere explanation as to facts or truthfulness….is intended or should be inferred." In other words, the coward/s who writes The Stench is trying (poorly) to tell us that none of the libel they publish is true. The "fictitious disclaimer" is itself a cynical lie.
The coward/s who writes The Stench lies about lying. That's quite a feat, even for a liar.
