Taking Stock: Investors Seem as Interested in Reality as Willy Wonka

Is it just me, or does the stock market seem to be tiptoeing through the tulips while all hell's breaking loose around us? It wasn't too long ago that the mere mention of the word "terror" would send the market plunging 300 points. Today, it's a punchline in every late-night monologue and hashtagged in every Twitter feed. What's absolutely baffling, at this very moment, is how the world seems on the brink of certain catastrophe -- due, in no small part, to the escalating chaos in the Middle East...