(0715) Not 100%, some dental issues, shall see. (0753)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Snowden, Tempora etc.

8. Mendacious chicken fraud

7. Had to smile

6. An interesting thing came up

… whilst exploring Rivers of Babylon:

My reading of it is not that Jeremiah:

Rabbinical sources attributed the poem to the prophet Jeremiah,^[2] and the Septuagint version of the psalm bears the superscription: “For David. By Jeremias, in the Captivity.”^[3]

… was exhorting violence but rather lamenting what he saw coming and was bitter at Edomites et al for that.

Various groups have used and exploited the song’s modern form, for example the Melodians, imho the version most musically suited to the theme, if not lyrically:

“In the context of the song “Rivers of Babylon” (originally recorded by The Melodians in 1970), “King Alpha” is a Rastafarian title for Haile Selassie I, the former Emperor of Ethiopia. Rastafarians view Haile Selassie as a divine figure, with “King Alpha” representing God and his wife, Menen Asfaw, as “Queen Omega”.”

The less I say about that perversion of Psalm 137 the better.