Don’t shoot the messenger folks! I’m just an impartial journalist. A male journalist, but impartial nonetheless.

Dr Paul Irwing is a senior lecturer in organizational psychology at Manchester University. He claims that men are more intelligent than women.
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Wow. I wish someone had a video of this… on one hand it would be hillarious. On the other hand, I wonder why a police officer had to resort to using a Taser to separate a little boy from a fight with a girl.

I mean, what the heck? When I was a kid a teacher would just step in and end a fight like this. Now you’ve got a heavily armed police officer standing there and you’re telling me that she couldn’t pull an 80 lb. boy off a girl he was hitting?

They didn’t mention any weapons on the boy, so if that is the case, then that officer needs to be fired for her own safety. If she can’t take an 11 year old she would stand no chance against a grown man.

Here’s the story:
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Activist and bookstore owner Dr. Kamau Kambon, who taught Africana Studies 241 in the Spring 2005 semester at North Carolina State University spoke live on C-span.

Now, I know no one actually watches C-span, but here is what he had to say. Hopefully NCSU won’t decide to bring him back as he is obviously mental.
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WESTWOOD, CA (AP) — A student shocked with a Taser gun by a campus police officer after refusing requests to show his ID card thought he was being singled out because of his Middle Eastern appearance, his lawyer said.

Attorney Stephen Yagman said he plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit accusing the UCLA police of ”brutal excessive force,” as well as false arrest stemming from the Tuesday night incident at a campus library.
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The Internet continues to change the world as people learn how powerful having an equal voice can be. As a prime example, ordinary citizens have begun to employ the tools of the web to act as a watchdog against government exceeding it’s bounds. As an example see CopWatchLA.org.

One area seeing rapid growth is the surveillance of local police officials. It seems that sometimes officers either believe they are omnipotent, or forget that they are paid not only to enforce the laws, but also to exercise appropriate restraint while doing so.
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