Benedict Baerst

Class of 2010



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Grade 'F'

Benedict Baerst

Rufus Wainwright, and Many Other Things — Apr 25, 2008

One must credit the producers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed for stretching such a pathetic stock of original material into 90 minute feature. Given how preposterous intelligent design is, Ben Stein probably gave the most sympathetic account possible of how a handful of researchers defending it were ejected from their respective Universities. He did not, however, provide persuasive evidence for how evolutionary theory led to eugenics, racism, Communism, fascism, abortion, and a host of other evils that are either directly or indirectly referenced.

Humiliated by the Television

Benedict Baerst, Kevin Rodriguez, Ted Meyer

The Media Issue — Mar 8, 2007

Larry is a phone salesman; he�s the kind of responsible American man that is �able to support [his] wife to stay at home and raise [his] children.� He�s been dying to get his hands on the camouflage Lambourgini of his dreams. But Larry�s not ...

300 Erect Nipples

Benedict Baerst, Ted Meyer

Happy Easter — Apr 5, 2007

From the cinematic virtuosos who brought us Robocop 2 and 3 comes 300, a gripping tale of political intrigue, passionate romance, and fervent nationalism with, by broad consensus, fewer than thirty lines of intelligible dialogue. The majority of these preciously few lines convey the vital facts—that Spartans are fierce ...