Some more reminders that I'm not insane

Keith Olbermann on Donald Rumsfeld's chilling American Legion speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5eOvaWKY3g

40 percent of Americans are embarassed by our reputation abroad:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14618513/

And Jon Stewart, speaking a couple weeks ago on The Daily Show with Thomas Kean, chair of the 9-11 Commission:

In a society that is free and democratic, how can you protect - I mean, we're being stalked, to some extent. And it seems unreasonable to expect that the government will keep us completely safe. But it also seems unreasonable that they should keep us completely scared.