Honestly, considering the reactionary, knee-jerk and absurdly putative that's manifested amongst too many of my fellow liberals these days, this is probably for the best. After all, no sense in appealing to an audience which is going to turn on you like rats in a flood as soon as someone proclaims it's too male gazey,…

Hear, hear!

True enough.

Exactly, it's just like religion, but without all that peace, love and forgiveness nonsense getting in the way of that sweet, sweet, self-righteous condemnation.

In other news, Glasgow-born, caber-tossing, award-winning haggis chef Scot McScotty Scot-Scot, voted "Most Likely To Put A Claymore Through An Englishman's Face" by Scotsman Magazine five years running, is apparently No True Scotsman.

OMG! It's almost like the character who used that term was a bad guy or something! Where the hell does Whedon get off, thinking the villains should actually perform acts of villainy?

From what I understand, the band itself is pretty solidly anti-fascist; they've gone on record as stating that they're not fans of the Nazis, don't like the people you've described twisting their music into some kind of pro-fascist propaganda, and really just see war as a source for interesting stories to sing about.…

Nowhere near enough Sabaton on this list. Seriously, was there no room for "Screaming Eagles," "40-1" or "Primo Victoria"? Pretty much every single one of their albums has songs about Nazis getting killed, one would think they'd at least get a mention.