First off, I listen to Sean Hannity’s radio program on Sirius every once in a while.  Though he is disgustingly partisan, I like to hear what is coming out of the republican spin machine to balance what I hear from the liberal one.  Anyhow, his show opens with a snippet of Martina McBride’s version of the song “Independence Day”, the chorus of which is below:  

Let freedom ring
Let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is the day of a reckoning
Let the weak be strong
Let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away
Let the guilty pay
It’s Independence Day

Each time I hear those lines I always find myself wondering – Let the right be wrong?  What the hell does that mean?  Does that make any sense to anyone?  Or was the author of this song just desperate to find something that rhymed with strong?

Second, I was perusing the final medal count from the Olympics the other day and was interested to note the following: China, a country whose political ideology espouses all things collective and despises individualism, finished first in the gold medal count thanks largely to individual events rather than team competitions.  Of course, this was by design, as the Chinese studied which events are easiest to medal in and poured massive amounts of resources into forcing athletes to focus on those events so as to ensure that China would finish first in the medal count.  Still, it’s fun to note the irony in the fact that the U.S., perhaps the ultimate promoter of individualsim worldwide, won fourteen gold medals in team sports versus China’s eleven, this despite the fact that the Chinese finished with substantially more golds than the Americans (51 versus 36).  I’m just sayin’….