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During Saturday Night Live’s cold opener Jay Pharoah asPresident Barack Obama and Bill Hader as Speaker John Boehner held a joint press conference to announce they had reached a deal to avert the fiscal cliff — simply to end Republican bullying of Boehner. “I feel sorry for this orange man,” Pharoah said, recalling stories of Boehner eating lunch by himself and being shoved pantsless into the women’s restroom.

In this video former senator Alan Simpson asks the millennial generation to stop tweeting “first world problems” and start using their well developed social media skills to persuade lawmakers to handle the national debt. Simpson supports the Can Kick Back’s “Three-A-Week Recruitment Challenge” which is a petition for America to gain back the American dream. Although it’s hilarious, do you think the video got the point across?

As the United States hurtles toward the so-called “fiscal cliff.” And in case you’re still unclear about what that means, here’s Mr. Burns from the Simpsons to explain it. “Think of the economy as a car and a rich man as the driver,” Mr. Burns says. “If you don’t give the driver all the money, he’ll drive you over the cliff. It is just common sense.”

  To take a look back at 2012 — the campaign, the election, the weird moments thrown in — check out Time Magazine’s top 10 list of the best political memes, which includes popular 2012 moments like Big Bird, Flexing Ryan, You Didn’t Build That, “Eastwooding” and Texts from Hillary.

What do you think: Will politicians let the United States fall off the fiscal cliff? Tell us in our poll.

On November 14, a tourist was visiting New York City with her boyfriend when she witnessed a sincere act of kindness. NYPD Officer Larry DePrimo, after seeing a homeless man without shoes or socks, went into a nearby shoe store and purchased a pair of boots and thermal socks for the man, the New York Times reports. The tourist, Jennifer Foster, snapped a photo of the two on her cell phone. Now, more than two weeks later, the story and photo have gone viral.