Wednesday: I really felt like katsu today.

So that's what I got for lunch.

Last night's Agents of Shield at least took the time to answer some questions.  I still don't care about Hydra or Ex-agent Jerkface, but at least they tied in to the super-powered Inhumans story somewhat.  Now I have two questions:

1. Why isn't there a well made database of Marvel characters?  The alient planet guy has the following traits:
   1. Is an Inhuman.
   2. Is immortal.
   3. Can shape change.
   4. Probably super strong or something, but who cares about that, 90% of the Marvel universe is super strong.
   How many people can that apply to?  I was able to find a wiki page that lists immortals, but without a way to cross reference efficiently, it's hard to search through.  Some way to do "SELECT * FROM Inhumans JOIN Immortals USING(character)" would be super helpful.  Otherwise, it's just a constant stream of fucking Apocalypse, and we all know it can't be Apocalypse on that planet because Fox has the rights to all the mutants.
2. How the hell does Hydra stay in business?  Assume all Hydra mid-to-upper tier managers are psychopaths like Ex-agent Jerkface.  This is safe as no one tells him he's doing a bad job.  Ex-agent Jerkface tends to kill like 1-5 of his own "insufficiently dedicated" teammates each episode.  Let's say show time passes in weeks like the episodes.  If all managers are killing like 3 people a week, they have to have a very flat hierarchy, otherwise the fraction of the company dying each week would be huge.
   1. And this isn't a terrible assumption: Old Man Secret Hydra Guy is running a program that is intentionally trying to turn employees into Inhumans.  The side effect of failing to turn into an Inhuman: you turn to stone (which kills you, duh).  
   If each manager is killing like 150 employees a year, they have to have at least this many people under them.  Otherwise, they must be spending all the time they're not murdering on recruitment.  Since we saw in one of the other episodes that recruitment involves murder-punching somebody to death, that's something like 300 people a year dying for each manager.  This ignores losses due to, you know, actually going out and doing evil at people, which is not likely to be a safe job.
1. I guess I'm also wondering who exactly would decide this is a good line of work to go into.  Regular jobs exist.  Even regular crime jobs exist.  Why would you ever decide to join MurderCorp, when on a team of N members, you can be pretty sure you have a 1 / (N - N) chance of ending up murdered?

• Tl;dr: Santa Monica cops are kind of racist.  It's a surprise.
• Sailor V.
• This is the kind of squirrel that would join Hydra.  Just someone who is out looking for murder.
• Wow.  Somebody's a jerk (spoiler: it's not the person who runs that tumblr).
• So maybe I should be reading Wonkette now that Gawker is getting crappy?  
• That's unfortunate.  He taught a history class I took freshman year.  He was a good teacher.