In between writing the screenplay for the sequel to The Avengers, developing ABC's S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot and executive producing Dark Horse's Buffy-verse comics, Joss Whedon somehow found time to shoot a video "endorsing" Mitt Romney for president. Sure, it's a bit surprising, considering that Whedon and Romney differ on myriad social issues (today, in any case), but the filmmaker has found common, if post-apocalyptic, ground.

"Y'know, like a lot of liberal Americans, I was excited when Barack Obama took office four years ago," Whedon explains, "but it's a very different world now, and Mitt Romney is a very different candidate -- one with the vision and determination to cut through business-as-usual politics and finally put this country back on the path to the zombie apocalypse. Romney is ready to make the deep rollbacks in healthcare, education, social services, reproductive rights that will guarantee poverty, unemployment, overpopulation, disease, rioting -- all crucial elements in creating a nightmare zombie wasteland."

There's more, of course. And along the way, Whedon gets in a little jab at Ayn Rand devotees, sure to make a few libertarians rethink their interpretations/warm embrace of Firefly.