Mike Godwin, "reporter" Options

[EricBarbour]

Did you know that Mike Godwin occasionally writes for Reason, that famous libertarian rag?

Did you know that Mike visited the Occupy Oakland protest?

[thekohser]

I saw a great number of motorcycle police whose insignia showed that they were from San Jose. It’s a bit of a hike to get here from San Jose a police motorcycle, but they had still come out in force to hold down the perimeter.

Mike must not be familiar with the known truism, "Nobody wants to live in San José, not as an inherent thing." Obviously, these San Jose police were just trying to do as everyone tries to do -- get out of San Jose.

I don’t know how to interpret everything I saw, and I can’t state with any authority what Occupy Oakland or any of the other protests ultimately mean.

Well, at least Mike is more humbly candid about his journalist and historian skills than he ever was about his legal prowess. Maybe taking that step down from the world-famous Wikimedia Foundation to the less-famous MadRiver Entertainment gig has given Godwin a new sense of humanity and of humility.