Sense and sensibility

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm left to wonder after viewing news story after news story detailing how people are being offended by the smallest unintended slight, panicked over imagined plagues, and taken in by grandiose claims of quick fixes to everything from weight loss to health care - when did we lose our senses?