Just in case I hadn't already lightened your mood with continuing scandals in Washington, the death palm trees in Hawaii, and the impending Snowmageddon, there's this little tidbit from MarketWatch.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scary-1929-market-chart-gains-traction-2014-02-11

Apparently the stock market is on eerily similar track to the big crash in 1929.