If you ever worried the Kardashian clan is getting too much power, the people are Business Insider are now saying that Kylie Jenner has the power to declare the death of a website. She used her Twitter feed (and its—gulp!—24 million followers) to announce that nobody opens up Snapchat, with a Trumpian “so sad” appended to it. And this from an “influencer” who last year partnered with the social media platform for the “Ask Kylie” show. As someone who has been legally able to drink the entire 21st Century, and therefore never felt the need to go on Snapchat, we’re not sure that the import of this announcement will be, although it scares us no end that a Kardashian or Jenner has that kind of power. She hasn’t left the site, if you still want to interact with her, her user name is “Kylizzlemynizzl,” a series of letter we feel stupider for just having typed.
Billy Graham was someone who, at one point, might have had the power to change public opinion, but our opinion of him was never that high. We still remember him caught on tape with Richard Nixon talking about Satanic Jews, whose “stranglehold (on the media) has got to be broken or the country’s going down the drain.” He apologized for these remarks, but there’s always been a nagging question: either he truly believed what he told Nixon, which makes him a hypocrite of the first order, or he didn’t, which made him was a moral coward, telling the powerful what they wanted to hear. So when we read the headlines that his nephew wasn’t mourning his death, we eagerly clicked on the link, hoping to find some dirt on the recently deceased preacher. Unfortunately, it was no such thing—he wasn’t mourning because “He finally gets to be with his two great loves: the Lord and (his late wife) Ruth.”
Speaking of Anti-Semitism, in Samaria, the Tomb of Joshua was desecrated this week; swastikas and Arabic graffiti was spray painted on the walls. Joshua was Moses’ second in command and successor as leader of the Israelites. He was called the first Jewish Chief of Staff, which makes his tomb “a holy place and a place of great importance to the Jewish people,” according to Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan. What made this even worse is that is occurred on Moses’ Yahrzeit. We had no idea there was such as thing, so, now we’ll have to go to the store and get a candle…
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