MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Stocks rose for a second straight session just in time for today’s celebration of Scotland’s Patron Saint which is just as well since citizens of Adam Smith’s birthplace famously loath losing money. (St. Andrew is currently in pretty good company what with Saints Row producer THQ Inc. (THQI) jumping 37.96% to top the Nasdaq (^IXIC) and St. Jude (STJ) up 2.40% yesterday adding on another 2.14% before the opening bell on the back of an analyst upgrade.) A seesaw session saw stocks first fall after listening to the Speaker — John Boehner sounding downbeat on the fiscal cliff — before gaining from a ...