On Tuesday, President Barack Obama was re-elected, which means, of course, that Mitt Romney lost. But if Romney had won, the president-elect would have needed a website. It makes sense that his staffers would have prepared one. But if the fool who accidentally published it wasn't already out of a job, well, he should…

Some post-election levity for your Wednesday morning. Writes the incomparable Geoff Brumfiel on his blog, Freak of Nature:

The election results indicate it's a win for Obama — but is it a win for climate science? Maybe. Will it be a more central piece of an Obama presidency than a Romney one? Most definitely. Romney's willingness to mock sea level rise (here's the soundbite, in case you somehow missed it being played on repeat in the…

We all know that Air Force One transports the President around but what about the presidential candidate? Well for Mitt Romney, he used an airplane from a small airplane company in Michigan who will get it back now and have to "de-Romneyize" it: strip the logos, change the seats and clean it up.

The election is tomorrow. Go vote. But be sure you're informed first. Politifact's Settle It app is one way to do that.

With less than two weeks until the US presidential election, director Joss Whedon decides to toss in his two cents. But what starts as a Mitt Romney anti-endorsement quickly morphs into a parody of hyperbolic political ads. Which candidate will put us on the fastest path to the zombie apocalypse? And which candidate…

If you want to know the Internet's temperature on Obama and Romney in the race to become the next President, just check out this snazzy 2012 Election Mood Meter tool. It smartly calculates and analyzes real-time tweets to figure out which direction each candidate is trending.

Absolutely everybody in the media is calling Mitt Romney a cyborg now — and that's supposed to be an insult. An increasing number of political pundits are using the "cyborg" label to bring attention to Romney's stiff, unspontaneous style and his apparent lack of compassion.

In what is by all accounts a pathetic bid for social currency, Mitt Romney's campaign has officially become the first political campaign to buy a trending topic on Twitter.

Do you miss the days of space shuttle launches? Do you want to see humans go back to the Moon, and even explore Mars, in your lifetime? Paul Hildebrandt does too. So he's initiated a Kickstarter campaign to create Fight For Space: Exploring the Future of Manned Spaceflight, a documentary with a higher aim than just…

After Rush Limbaugh's bizarre question as to whether Bane, Batman's masked foe, could somehow be an anti-Mitt Romney conspiracy, one inspired Bat-fan decided Bane Capital wasn't a shabby idea. Bane Capital is now tweeting reports about the liberation of Gotham's corporate persons and how his anti-Batman mission…

Oh, Mitt. This feels almost too easy. First you launched that self-promoting iPhone app that misspelled America. AMERICA! The country you're trying to convince us to let you run. I can understand a typo—but good god, double-check the important shit, man.

American's have finally agreed on something in politics: Obama is the guy we want to fight off alien invaders. A new poll, sponsored by the National Geographic Channel, shows that 65 percent of Americans believe that Obama would be better at fighting aliens than Mitt Romney. And since 36 percent of respondents…

Mitt Romney's new iPhone app, With Mitt, "lets you customize photos with a variety of Mitt-inspired artistic frames." Slogans like "Believe in America," "Obama Isn't Working," and "I'm a Mom for Mitt" are just a few of the Mitt-tastic phrases that can be slapped on your iPhone photos, proudly pronouncing your support…

President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts governer Mitt Romney will go head to head in the 2012 presidential election, as you're probably all too aware, given that this campaign already feels like it's been going on for five years.

Looks like Rick Santorum's not the only Republican frontrunner to have a "Google" problem. Mitt Romney has one now, too. If you Google "Romney", the third search result is SpreadingRomney.com, which provides hapless browsers with a not-so-flattering definition for the candidate's name. Because internet.

Evidence continues to mount that your political leanings are determined, to some extent, by aspects of your biology. The latest installment in this emerging area of research comes from the University of Nebraska, in a study that looks at peoples' responses to certain forms of visual stimuli — politically themed or…

Last night's presidential debate didn't bring much unseen material forth from the GOP contenders, but new rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney butted heads over one very pertinent issue: the moon. Should we mine it for moon minerals? Let's argue.

Perennial GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney caused a stir in 2007 when he said he really loved L. Ron Hubbard's notoriously awful Battlefield Earth. (The book, not the movie.) So this time around, he came up with a better choice.

It's Super Tuesday! No, that doesn't mean you're going to get bathed in cosmic radiation and gain super-strength and diamond skin. (At least, not necessarily.) Rather, if you live in one of a bunch of states, you'll be choosing your party's presidential candidate. When you make that momentous choice, the most…