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4 days ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
The most impeccable logic may be non-transferable even when applied to similar contexts. Unlike rats, which can adapt to almost all environments, rationality may not endure the harshest climates. The reason is not meteorological, but political. New York City mayors and City Council members are term-limited, as are the majority of the states' governors. Members of Congress have terms that are, in effect, perpetually renewable.
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1 week ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
In the struggle to establish credibility as social justice warriors, half the battle is showing up, barking and flashing righteous indignation, while hiding tell-tale signs of the unowned hypocrisy of fiercely defended personal privilege, and joining in collective tunes and chants of liberation and solidarity under blazing strobe lights as hot mics memorialize one's activism for future recollection at upscale exclusive parties.
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2 weeks ago | 
thechiefleader.com | Ron Isaac
When New York State's Board of Regents spiked and forever forbade logos, mascots and all Native American conjuring names and imagery from its school sports teams, they no doubt felt they were doing the Lord's work and were on the right side of history. There was precedent in Major League baseball, the NFL, and even college basketball at St John's, where the Redmen became Red Storms.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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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.
