Respect Authority

How quickly am I going to hell for thinking this camp is probably the most hilarious and infuriating place to work in the history of summer employment?

”I wanted to create a place where kids from all over the country and even the world can come, and know that they’re wonderful just the way they are,” said Taro Alexander, the professional actor who started the camp—which if you’re too busy to click on the link above, caters to kids with a stutter who like to act. “Just because they stutter doesn’t mean it has to stop them from doing anything in life.”

Sorry to disappoint Taro, but that’s exactly what it means. Particularly when it comes to acting. Instead of creating a fantasy land where stuttering children can escape for a few weeks at a time—thereby pretending to themselves that the world isn’t actually a cruel place full of people who couldn’t care less about the difficulty of having a speech impediment—perhaps you should create a town, nay, an urban center, where stutterers of all ilks can live together and plod their way through conversations, poetry readings and political speeches. Mayor? Jeff Goldblum.