Well, it clearly isn't going to happen from the Stock Market, at least these days, so folks are needing to be pretty clever as to how to maintain their life style and have enough for their retirement.

To that end, some pretty lucky Lottery playing individual is now the proud recipient of 133 million bucks. Assuming they know they won and come forward to claim their bounty. Would be a sad state of affairs if they lost their ticket on the way out of the convenience store. Why that might prompt a name change to the inconvenience store.

As far as winning the lottery, in reality the odds of hitting the big, huge, Mega Millions jackpot are something along the lines of 176 million to 1. When queried about why people would think that the odds of winning are in their favor, regardless of the statistics against it, Richard Wiseman, a professor of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, in England, wrote "People play the lottery, in general because they think they're special." I don't know about that, I think I am pretty special, but if the odds of dying are greater than the odds of winning, how special could I be?

I found another plan.

Have an affair with an elected official. A senator might be a good choice.

Apparently, Senator John Ensign's parents gave his mistress thousands. Ninety six thousand to be exact. Senator Ensign, a republican from Nevada, was involved in a little hanky panky from December 2007 to August 2008. His mistress had 6 months work for 100 grand. Not a bad return on investment.

Of course, I can't imagine being the recipient of that kind of largesse myself. While still pretty feisty, my ingenue days are long gone, I'm afraid.

But since it did happen in Nevada, land of legalized gambling, perhaps you'd like to engage, with me, in a game of Bingo, twenty-one, blackjack, or craps? "C'mon, roll 'em."