'Going Rogue' Again with Jon Talton > A Trump Hit-Piece

Your MesaZona blogger might have been derelict-in-his duties to catch mystery writer extraordinaire Jon Talton in-person at last Saturday's Mesa Convention Center event for the publication of his latest local pulp-fiction thriller Bomb Shelter. 
Riding Valley Metro Light Rail to transit to Downtown Mesa to get to his destination, he took the time to add some remarks reacting to what he saw on his way to his talk.
(See excerpt farther on in this post)
Nonetheless, he's warmed up his pen again in this post published just one day ago - Trump in all his gut-glory. No private parts exposed thanks to this eye-catching iimage, Carl Muecke illustration you see.
(The would-be Imperial President-Emperor has no clothes stripped-down)
The Man From No Hope

May 25, 2018

"The most important story that likely didn't appear on the front page of your newspaper was that James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, has "no doubt" Russia swung the election for Donald Trump. Clapper, a retired Air Force lieutenant general, has spent his career in intelligence. He was unanimously confirmed to the position by the Senate in 2010. Yet aside from the Rachel Maddow show, this bombshell has barely received any coverage.
And so it goes. Almost every day, new incriminating information comes out about this treasonous, corrupt, malevolent presidency. You read it if you partake of the Front Page links on this site. And yet, almost every day I grow more fearful that it will make no difference . . .
If Democrats regain the House in the fall, impeachment is probably a losing gambit unless they make enough gains in the Senate to remove Trump from office. Then we get the creepy Mike Pence. . .
I don't know a way out."
Here's a link to the whole story > http://www.roguecolumnist.com
Reality-based commentary about Phoenix, Arizona, and the nation
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" . . . I rode light rail from the stop by my Midtown condo to a book signing at the Mesa Convention Center. Downtown Mesa remains sleepy, despite all the hype of revival. It has good bones. It lacks a population with urban values. Some of the circa 1970 civic center survives, and I was reminded how Mesa had its city hall, library, police headquarters, and main fire station in attractive, human-scaled, and complementary designed buildings — all set in a park with grass and shade trees. This was a grand civic statement for a city of 63,000.
Now, the newer fortress-like library looks like the abandoned home of a bankrupt logistics firm. The mid-rise city hall is bleak and uninspiring. With a population of 485,000 — larger than Cincinnati, St. Louis or the city of Atlanta — Mesa has little to show for it. . .
REFERENCE POINT > Filling-In 17 May 2018