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.

It looks like Britney Spears is at it again.

After a rough couple of years that included public meltdowns, custody battles, and numerous supposed comebacks, Spears finds herself once again in another massive controversy.  Amidst her current and so far disaster-free comeback, a new group is speaking out against some of the recent choices made by the once half-girl-almost-woman pop hybrid.  In the past, Spears has dealt with the wrath of the Barbers’ Union (for self-shearing inside an active barber shop without union approval), Travelers Insurance (for her unfortunate portrayal of their corporate logo), and the Sea Shepherds (who have questioned her Samurai Spirit on many occasions).

Now, surprisingly, a Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Society for the Survival of Suffering Stutterers (Suh-Sur-Suff-Stuh for short) in Plainsboro Township, NJ, has spoken out against the pop star and her hit single, Womanizer. In a statement they started writing in mid-October but only just finished and released this morning, regional spokesperson and local Spanish Club Vice-President, Kyle Filiwitz said the following: Read More ›