Ron Isaac

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Persecution mania

1 week ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

A distant relative of mine fled Europe during a period of particular turbulence and settled in South Africa, where due to her racist proclivities, she assimilated comfortably, feeling at home in a similar system of oppression that had persecuted her.
'With spite and relish'

2 weeks ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

Wake-up callPosted 5/23/25 My friend's parents' German citizenship, like that of all Jews, was stolen by the Nazis through their "Nuremberg Laws.” Being stripped of nationhood was an early step towards total dehumanization. Although my friend had no interest in setting foot in the cradle of the holocaust, he resolved to parlay the bitter lessons of his parents' experiences into a project of self-discovery.
Stats - Stat! - The Chief

3 weeks ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

What do the EMS and firing squads have in common? One dispatches ambulances; the other dispatches people. But now, patients are prisoners also. They are captives of FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker's "Computer Aided Dispatch," which has suspended and subordinated human judgment by requiring that all patients be taken to the nearest hospital in nearly all circumstances, and to ignore patients' or their family's contrary choices, even in non-critical situations and for rational and compelling reasons.
Additives, self-slaughter and excommunication

1 month ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

There's a lot of talk these days about cognitive impairment. When it's real and how it's measured is disputed, especially when the subjects are public figures. My original diagnostic test is the most reliable. It can be tailored to holders of officers of public trust who must tap their precocious memories to recall the sequence of their lies for future repetition and perhaps expanded to people who actually seek to heal the world.
Private streets, winds farms and blame games

1 month ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

I remember rotary phones and telephone booths, so I'm part of the dinosaur subset of the population that actuaries predict will soon return to the primordial soup and revert to pre-birth non-existence. Like when I was a kid, I deal only in superlatives now. It used to be who would win a battle between Superman and Batman. Now I just want to know what is the fastest thing in the world. Easy. The Forest Hills Gardens car-booting brigade.
The gauntlet - The Chief

1 month ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you, and pigs see you as an equal. Winston Churchill's astute observation, slightly tweaked, describes how people of different ideological breeds view the police. In the polarized miasma of contemporary "dialogue,” police are either vilified or venerated. Either they can't catch a break, or they can do nothing wrong. Politicians, by speaking from both sides of their maws, can be said to technically represent everybody.
Collective no-bargain

2 months ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

I have no plasma screen and all I know about plasma is blood related and my experience with streaming is strictly allergy related. I've attended traditional movie theaters avidly ever since I was uploaded with hormones and found the dark and intimate back rows of these fleapits conducive to romantic exploration. Now, they're fading fast (the theaters, not the hormones). The decline of movie theaters has been arrested, and it was not by ICE.
Rules for suckers

2 months ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

P.T. Barnum, who said "There's a sucker born every minute,” lived before the population explosion and the present era of warp speed mass gullibility. Today, a sucker is born every nano-second. And all persuasions are equal opportunity suckers for exploitation by multilateral sources of propaganda.
Beasts! - The Chief

2 months ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

Wake-up callBeasts!BY RON ISAACPosted 3/28/25 Leaking bags of dripping animal blood, receptacles crawling with maggots, goat, sheep and lamb stools, drains clogged with bird droppings and feathers, spoiled, ashen meat by-products hosting larvae and vermin, tortured sentient creatures in minuscule enclosures. There are around 80 of these ghastly paradises in New York City. They produce wildlife carnage . Sometimes they're called "wet markets.” This item is available in full to subscribers.
Labor front back

2 months ago | thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac

The eternal truths are always topical, and, if you track current events, the haunting loss of childhood innocence is rich in renewable content. Kids who viewed Sesame Street's debut and befriended Big Bird and Cookie Monster are now queuing for pacemakers and running out the clock on their lives and hips.