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See Jimmy Fallon interview Mitt Romney... as Mitt Romney.

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Jimmy Fallon took an unconventional approach to interviewing Mitt Romney: He interviewed him as Mitt Romney.

I know that Mr. Romney isn't exactly know for his emotiveness (as evidenced by the joke about his laughter in this video), but I really hope they do a reverse of this at some point where Mitt impersonates Jimmy.

If you would like to see what they talked about during the "real" interview, here's a selection from it:

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These tiny kittens think they can take on big dogs in a fight and they're right.

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A compilation of cute baby cats starting tussles with confused dogs, who just sit there and take it.

Two complaints about this video:

1. Don't love sound effects generally. They work okay, but let the kitten's right hook speak for itself.

2. Too short. Would like this video to be 3-4 hours, please.

Cats are brave as hell! They also have a good sense of when a placid dog will indulge them. Smack away, little beasts. You'll sleep in the encircling paws of your dog buddy tonight anyway.

A woman's bikini photo has gone viral on Facebook for an inspiring reason for once.

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Rachel Hollis, fashion blogger and mother of three, recently posted a bikini photo to Facebook with a caption that celebrated the stretch marks on her belly.


Dammit, now I'm comparing my self-confidence to hers. (via Facebook)

Hollis, who runs lifestyle website The Chic Site, wanted to share a photo of herself this month after she ran her first marathon.

She told Today: “I thought, it's not going to get better than this. You ran the 26 miles, and I had been training for six months. My body is never going to be smaller than it is right now, so if there's ever time to show off your belly, this is probably it."


I have stretch marks and I wear a bikini. I have a belly that's permanently flabby from carrying three giant babies and...

Posted by The Chic Site on Saturday, March 21, 2015

The photo quickly went viral, and as of publication has nearly 400,000 likes. The photo also inspired many commenters to say they were going to wear a bikini for the first time in years and to share photos of their own post-real-life bikini bodies.

Here's what Hollis wrote about her body and body image:

I have stretch marks and I wear a bikini. I have a belly that's permanently flabby from carrying three giant babies and I wear a bikini. My belly button is saggy... (which is something I didn't even know was possible before!!) and I wear a bikini. I wear a bikini because I'm proud of this body and every mark on it. Those marks prove that I was blessed enough to carry my babies and that flabby tummy means I worked hard to lose what weight I could. I wear a bikini because the only man who's opinion matters knows what I went through to look this way. That same man says he's never seen anything sexier than my body, marks and all. They aren't scars ladies, they're stripes and you've earned them. Flaunt that body with pride!

Hollis told Cosmo that she was "overwhelmed" by the response to her post and that she never expected the image to be shared by so many women.


Hollis ran her first marathon in mid-March. (via Facebook)

Woo! Bikinis! Of course, it's also a perfectly valid decision to wear a one-piece or a cover-up or a t-shirt over your bathing suit, whether you have proud, honorable baby-growing stretch marks or the kind from drinking too many birthday cake Frappuccinos.

Let's not get into any one-piece shaming here.

I, personally, will never be comfortable with the idea that I'm supposed to suddenly want to appear in (what is basically) my underwear in front of everyone I know. It's been a while since I ran a marathon, though (in a past life).

Kim Kardashian's hair isn't blonde anymore and we can finally breathe.

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Kim's hair is already back to black.

It was less than a month ago that Kim Kardashian surprised us by pulling a Jared Leto and bleaching her trademark black hair platinum blonde.







A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on

The look could be described as "Slytherin chic."

Maybe the jokes got to her, because Kim has made another change to her hairstyle.

She's a Griffindor again! Welcome back, Kim!

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How Did We Miss This? Mariah Carey sings along to her own hits blaring from a car radio.

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'Late Late Show' host James Corden got Mariah Carey to jam to her own music in his car.

We all jam along to Mariah Carey in our cars, because there's nothing more fun than trying to keep up with her vocal glides and slides in a place where nobody else can hear you.

Turns out Mariah does the same thing. She carpooled with the host of The Late Late Show with James Corden this week, and Corden played a medley of her greatest hits in the car. Of course, Carey couldn't resist belting out the tunes, because she's just like us except prettier and more talented.

The video may be only 5 minutes long and several days old, but it will be in our hearts forever, which is probably where Mariah's lyrics should be as well. Never our mouths.

The Internet is a vast and unwieldy thing, and sometimes important stories slip through the cracks. This has been: "How Did We Miss This?"


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This kid dancing at a basketball game has taken the Internet by storm.

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Peyton "Peanut" Henderson's dance moves at a high school basketball game are pure joy in kinetic form.

At last week's Kentucky High School State Basketball tournament, the action didn't heat up until halftime. That was when all eyes in the arena found themselves drawn to the stands, where young Peyton Henderson, aka "Peanut," was strutting his stuff to Pharrell's "Happy."

He also busted out to T. Swift's "Shake It Off."

I just revised my March Madness bracket. Peanut is going all the way!

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5 Things You Should At Least Pretend To Know Today - March 27, 2015

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1. Harry Reid Retiring From Senate To Make Room For Younger Feckless Democratic Leaders

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has announced that he will not seek re-election after his fifth term, thus bringing his thirty-year career in Congress to an end in 2017. He explained that he wants to free up campaign funds that could go to younger politicians who still have years of disappointment and frustration to offer the Democratic Party. "I think it is unfair for me to be soaking up all the money to be re-elected with what we are doing in Maryland, in Pennsylvania, in Missouri, in Florida. These are big, expensive states."


2. Lucky Bastard Barack Obama Gets To Chill With Guy Who Made 'The Wire'

It appears as though being President of the United States does in fact have a couple perks. Barack Obama was recently able to leverage his position as the nation's executive officer in order to spend a few minutes talking with David Simon, creator of the The Wire. Man, I've never been so jealous!



3. Alas, We Shall Never See How The Crawley Household Adapts To The Disco Era

Producers of the hit period television show Downton Abbey say it will be ending after its upcoming sixth season, so we'll probably never get to see whether Lady Mary can manage to find true love while doing the hustle between rails of coke in a London discotheque.


4. 'Furious 7' Expected (By Vin Diesel) To Sweep 2016 Academy Awards

Vin Diesel predicted big things for his soon-to-be-released film, Furious 7, in an interview with Variety earlier this week. "Universal is going to have the biggest movie in history with this movie. It will probably win best picture at the Oscars, unless the Oscars don't want to be relevant ever." Unfortunately, he did not specify whether the film will also win all of the other awards or just most of them.


5. Wrigley Field Renovations Progressing At About The Same Pace As Chicago Cubs

In keeping with the grand tradition of the Chicago Cubs franchise, renovators of the team's historic Wrigley Field stadium are seriously underperforming, and it looks like they are likely to leave a dangerous and disappointing mess on the field during the season. So, business as usual on Chicago's north side.

Barack Obama talked to the creator of "The Wire" and it's hard to tell who's the bigger fanboy.

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The president sat down with writer David Simon to discuss the consequences of the war on drugs.

You know your friend who won't stop talking about how great The Wire is? The one who's always trying to get you to watch the whole series, but you keep putting it off? Well, what if your friend was the president? Would you watch it then?

It turns out, President Obama is a huge Wire fan, so much so that he decided to invited the show's creator, David Simon, to the White House for an on-camera conversation. This isn't just some entertainment reporter fluff piece, though, where Obama asks Simon about McNulty's on-set pranks. They had a point to get across.

For anyone who's not aware, The Wire is a show about the drug trade in inner-city Baltimore, based on Simon's experiences as a police reporter there. The show follows drug dealers and police equally, and humanizes both sides. It addresses the destructive effect drugs have on inner-city communities, but also the destructive effect of the techniques used to police drugs, and the prison system itself.

President Obama is working to reform drug enforcement and the prisons, so he felt that a conversation with the man who brought all of this to the attention of America's well-to-do HBO watchers would be beneficial. I think it's a good idea, even if it just gets more people to watch The Wire. It's way better than whatever you're watching now, trust me.

This guy took a selfie once every mile on his hike from Mexico to Canada.

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The journey of 2600 miles begins with one selfie.

A lot of people have been trying to make it to 10,000 steps a day just for weight loss, but very few would attempt what Andy Davidhazy has done: hike the 2600 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.

It's a long trip, and not an easy way to do anything. Andy reports that the trip was 2640 miles, 400,000 vertical feet, and it took him 5 months to complete, with four pairs of shoes, and 2640 selfies. This clearly isn't a diet plan, and more of a general soul cleansing.

At the very least, it is a very accurate representation of how quickly facial hair grows.

Here he is at mile 1:


Fresh as a Davidhazy daisy.

As Andy explains in the video below, he was just a naive hiker in over his head.

"When I started, I just feel like I was a kid, totally unprepared and really had very little idea of what I was getting myself into. I only planned for this trip—decided to do it—two weeks in advance."

Andy says he didn't bring nearly enough provisions for his first day, for which he had planned a 20-mile hike. Having never hiked that far before, and certainly not in a hot desert, he foolishly started his journey at "high noon," and only brought three liters of water with him, and half a Subway sandwich. The other half he left in the car.

Here he is again about a month later:


Bearded and burned.

And now about two months after that:


This man knows something... and he's barely more than halfway done.

This is some video Andy took at "three key moments" during his hike. The first, which he admits "rambles on," is taken at 700 miles, 200 miles before he would finally leave the difficult desert portion of the trail. He confesses he had been thinking about quitting his journey or, at least, taking short cuts.

Check out Andy's website if you want to learn more about his trip, or the film he plans to make about it.


This dad doesn't like it when the dog eats his potato skin.

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Someone caught their dad on video giving the family dog an earful.

You might be tempted to feel bad for the dog in this video, but there are a few things to keep in mind: he never stopped his backtalk, so the dad didn't really "win this." Also, he has a belly full of delicious potato skin to comfort him. And finally, it's funny.

My conscience is clear.

Tug of war in a boat is utterly pointless and utterly fascinating.

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Some rowers in Poland invented a new sport.

How many Polish people does it take to row a boat? Twelve, but it still won't go anywhere.

In case you don't appreciate that joke, keep in mind that I, the author, am both Polish and dumb, so it's OK. In fact, this sport speaks to something in my blood. I find it much more engaging than all these other sports with rules, and structure, and numbers. I might have to put my own team together. I'll just use the guys who help me change my lightbulbs.

Daddy Horror Stories: I took my kids to Disney's 'Frozen' on Ice and barely lived to tell the tale.

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On November 27, 2013, the Walt Disney Company unleashed a force unto the world that has been so unforgiving in its constant assault on the senses that, at this point, it is pointless to fight it.


(via Disney/CartoonsImages.com)

If your household full of small children is anything like my household of small children, the monster that is Frozen has a severe grip on your small children and it refuses to… well… let it go.

We try to limit the amount of TV that we allow our kids to watch, but sometimes after chasing two toddlers around for an entire day, we give in. Sometimes you have to put the TV on so that you can do other things like cook dinner without burning one of the kids, or go to the bathroom without a lot of pointing and laughing.

Frozen is fine. I try to not be bothered by entertainment for children. It's not for me. You cannot get mad that dumb shows for babies are dumb. My children genuinely love it, and even though they've seen it countless times, they still get so much joy out of it; I'm not such a broken toy that I can't appreciate that. The repetition is what is destroying me. There really isn't much new to glean from the 30th viewing of Frozen, and there certainly isn't anything new on the 93rd.


So, when I was presented with free tickets to "Disney on Ice Presents: Frozen on Ice sponsored by Stonyfield YoKids Organic Yogurt" (on Ice), I jumped at the chance. If someone had asked me if I wanted to see a Japanese kabuki interpretation of Frozen, yes, goddammit, yes. Anything different!

The tickets came from a beloved family member with a relationship to the arena. It's important to stress this because if it were not for this very generous gift, my children would never even know that it was possible to reenact a computer generated animated film with real people on ice. At some point, Disney on Ice must have gotten it into their head that they were legitimate theater and not just a traveling theme park show on ice, because tickets are priced to compete with Broadway. For the prices I was seeing, the original voice cast better be out there on ice skates.

What you get instead is a hockey arena full of kids dressed like princesses, sitting in awe while their dads try to work through the flop sweat of financial ruin. If you are a dad who is about to attend one of these shows, you better invest in your children's wonder now, because there is absolutely nothing else for you here. The name of the game is vicarious joy, and if you don't know how to play it, I hope you can sleep with your eyes open. I thought maybe there'd be some pretty ladies at least, but our seats were far back enough and my eyes are mostly garbage enough that everyone was just a blurry impression of humans from what I presume to be the strangest level of show business.

I actually have a lot of respect and admiration for the skaters that perform for Disney on Ice. These are people desperately holding onto a dream. They are not going to let the fact that they are never going to make the US Olympic skating team deter them from their careers as professional ice skaters. Sure, they have to lip sync, and some of them have to climb inside of a giant reindeer costume with another human being, but they are making a living doing what they love.

The role of the dad at something like this is to carry a tired child to the car and spend lots and lots of money. Holy shit. What are they going to want you to buy first? Is it the $16 snow cone that comes in a completely impractical snowman-head cup? Or maybe it's the $14 bag of cotton candy that, by its very definition, is mostly air? No. The big ticket item, the one thing every kid sitting in a dark arena watching the dying dreams of former Olympic hopefuls wants is the, no shit, $35 sex-toy-looking wand thing that lights up and spins. Thirty-five f**king dollars. If you don't know the financial value of the love you have for your children, go to Disney on Ice. Mine is $34.99.

Luckily, I am married to an incredibly bright woman who opted to pre-purchase two “Frozen Inspired Fairy Princess Light Up Snowflake Wands." That's right. By sneaking two $10 knock-off novelty toys into the arena like a kid sneaking a joint into the Warped Tour, my wife was able to save me from having to try and explain to my kids that I love them but not “I'll spend $70 for two stupid spinning light up things" love them.

I sat in that arena with my wife who was holding my daughter in her light-up Elsa dress (that we also snuck in). In my lap sat my son, in his Olaf the Snowman costume he refuses to take off like he's auditioning for the reboot of Adventures in Babysitting, as I was bored out of my mind for close to three hours. Was it worth it? Yes. My kids had a great time, and ultimately that's all that matters to me when it comes to this type of bullshit.

(images via Sean Sullivan/video via Theme Park Review/JWL Media)

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Watch Sean Hayes and his husband lip sync Iggy Azeala and Jennifer Hudson's "Trouble."

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Sean Hayes and his husband Scott Icenogle perform an adorable lip sync of "Trouble."

So, there's this.

Posted by Sean Hayes on Thursday, March 26, 2015


I love so much that lip syncing to an Iggy Azalea/Jennifer Hudson song is a thing Sean Hayes and his husband Scott Icenogle do in their free time. What says "true love" more than a partner who, when you say "Will you lip sync with me?" says "Yes!" and maybe also adds "We should use a phone during that part when it sounds like she's on the phone."

Also, during the second verse, Scott's facial expression pogos back and forth between emotional singing and "What smells in here?" in the best way, and I could look at it all day long:


We should take the garbage out. (Image via Sean Hayes)

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