Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Desire: "They never stopped fornicating."

Apollo, God of the Sun and Music: "Mamma Mia!"

Ares, God of War: "I've been traveling."

Athena, Goddess of Wisdom: "I'm a scapegoat! Talk to Zeus."

Demeter, Goddess of Agriculture: "Greek yogurt. Any other stupid questions?" 

"The research found that an annual salary of $50,000 represented a significant tipping point in determining happiness and personal satisfaction."

If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, make $50K a year. See also: The Medium Chill.

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My first mistake was working at the mall, obviously. My second was working at a store in the mall about which I had once said: "I want everything in this store so bad that it physically hurts." My mom totally saw this train wreck before it hit. "Are you sure you'll be able to resist the temptation to spend all your money on clothes?" she wanted to know. I smiled and answered, "What money!" And then we laughed, because I had no money, which to my mother meant I was going to have to use the [...]

The triumph of women in the workplace has been one of the great success stories of last 100 years. … The triumph of female employment and opportunity is quite possibly the most important economic story in the world.

The Atlantic has an interesting (and triumphant!) piece about working, women, wages, and the world.

"Teens and their parents are spending 34% more on prom expenses this year, or $1,078 on average…" Uhhh… on WHAT!?

The average US tax refund check is almost $3,000. That is a surprising amount of dough the IRS is over-taking from you each year, but what can you do? (Move to the Cayman Islands where they don't have income tax and also it is sunny and beautiful and there is Tortuga rum cake which you could try approximating with this recipe — use prepackaged yellow cake mix for yet another shortcut — but those of you who've had the real deal will definitely taste the difference.) Did you spend yours in your head yet? Reuters suggests "having fun" with your return by buying five shares of Apple stock or 600 mocha [...]

Did you buy your winning lottery ticket yet, or are you afraid it will ruin your life? Why!? Certainly YOU are different. YOU are the one who will beat the odds, in more ways than one. YOU will win the lottery and things will get better.

It’s been a little more than a year since April 15, 2011, a date known as Black Friday to most poker players. On that day, every American who visited Fulltiltpoker.com or Pokerstars.com saw an unwelcome Department of Justice logo pasted onto a white background. Since Black Friday, Americans have been barred from playing on the largest online poker sites, arrest warrants have been executed for poker site owners, players have been alienated from many of their heroes, and one company, Full Tilt, has yet to refund over $100 million to its customers.

During this year of the online poker drought, the media has told countless stories about winning players [...]

Sliding into cohabitation wouldn’t be a problem if sliding out were as easy. But it isn’t. Too often, young adults enter into what they imagine will be low-cost, low-risk living situations only to find themselves unable to get out months, even years, later. It’s like signing up for a credit card with 0 percent interest. At the end of 12 months when the interest goes up to 23 percent you feel stuck because your balance is too high to pay off. In fact, cohabitation can be exactly like that. In behavioral economics, it’s called consumer lock-in.

In case you missed it: the article that sat atop the most-read and [...]

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Bringing your lunch to work sounds so simple, but it's actually almost impossible. Or, it was, until I cracked it.

Step 1: This is the easy part. Pick something simple that you'll eat for lunch every single day, and buy supplies to make that thing. Yes, marinated vegetables and goat cheese on gently toasted focaccia with a side of quinoa salad does sound delightful, but that's not what you will be eating. Instead, try this: Peanut butter. Loaf of bread. Apples.

Step 2: When home, unload apples, bread, and peanut butter and leave in conspicuous area, [...]