I like that the cinema nearest me has assigned seating. Not good for last minute impulse decisions to buy, but it does mean I can show up right at the last minute, having bought the ticket hours or days beforehand.

What's the motivation being cited for the shooting? Political? Personal? I read someone saying it was to get publicity, but I really don't want to consider that.

I have my place to myself. And am being a slug. CJ is off on a 48 hour survival training weekend, K-Bug is working her first shift here at Old Navy (she transferred from CA), and Noodle keeps wandering around looking for the other people. At least Miss. Kitty is hanging out with me.

What's the motivation being cited for the shooting?

The NY Times [link] says he posted a 1,500-pages manifesto calling for a Christian civil war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination.

What's the motivation being cited for the shooting?

He's apparently right-wing to the extreme, and the kids at the camp were all the kids of the Labour Party. I guess the Prime Minister is Labour, too? He's apparently protesting immigration and the development of something that faction calls "Eurabia."

Jesus.

In other news, I just saw an ad for Rescue Me with Maura Tierney with a buzz cut (or, more likely, slightly-grown-out hair). Good for her, man.

Dear god, my 13-year-old son is way more famous than I am on the internets. This is because he is now the holder of the record for the largest golden shiner caught in Wisconsin. (The golden shriner is a type of minnow).

Wisconsin teen catches record minnow

Take a young angler with advanced knowledge of fish species, add an out-sized minnow and what do you have? A Wisconsin record.

Max JonasKrueger, 13, of Madison was catching a steady stream of "smallish" bluegill, yellow perch and pumpkinseed sunfish last Thursday on Fowler Lake in Waukesha County.

The biggest of the bunch was about 6 inches long.

But about noon, something larger swam near the public pier in Fowler Park. Though it technically was a minnow, Max knew the fish was extraordinary.

Max tempted it with a worm on a No. 6 hook. The fish hit and, after a few seconds of rod-quivering excitement, Max hoisted the fish on the dock.

As he suspected, the fish was a golden shiner. It stretched the tape to 9.75 inches in length and weighed 4.8 ounces on a certified scale.

Department of Natural Resources fisheries supervisor Randy Schumacher identified the fish and, as required to certify state records, opened the fish to check for lead or other foreign substances that might artificially increase its weight.

Unlike some professional cyclists and baseball players, it was clean.

The fish, all 0.3 pounds of it, was officially accepted this week as the Wisconsin hook-and-line record for the species.

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But few anglers target them with hook-and-line, much less have the knowledge and awareness to identify a shiner of record proportions.

How did Max know the fish that swam near the dock was special?

"I just really love fishing and want to learn as much as possible about fish and how to catch them," said Max, a rising eighth-grader at Sherman Middle School in Madison. "I read about all kinds of fish, so I knew it was a very big shiner."

Max was fishing last Thursday with his uncle, Roy Jonas of the Town of Oconomowoc.

How knowledgeable is Max about Wisconsin fish? He knew that the golden shiner is very similar to the European rudd, a fish that was introduced to Oconomowoc Lake in the 1920s.

Since Fowler Lake is part of the Oconomowoc chain, Max wanted to make sure his catch wasn't a rudd.

A scale count by the DNR's Schumacher confirmed it was pure golden.

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Max plans to have a replica mount made of the record shiner. It will go on his wall with about 20 other mounts of species he has caught. It helps to have an uncle (Roy Jonas) who is a taxidermist.

As you might expect, Max's favorite activity is fishing. When asked what he plans to do the rest of the summer, Max didn't hesitate: "I'll be fishing."

Although his minnow catch has placed him in the spotlight, Max said his favorite fish is the musky. He has caught and released seven muskies this summer, including a 36-incher.

Wisconsin has 1.1 million licensed anglers and probably a million more like Max under the age of 16 who don't require a license.

How many can match Max's fish identification acumen?

Let's say it for the record - Max is one in a million.

Extremist asshole's nonsensical response to Europe's growing pains over becoming less homogenous.

What a great kid, Tommy. If he landed a 36-inch muskie, he's a hell of a fisherman.

tommy, that is a wonderful article! I hope he's keeping a scrapbook for this kind of stuff.

I would comment about what has happened in Norway, except thinking about it just makes me want to cry. And then rage and scream, none of which does any good. At least I have ~ma to send outward.

In what may be a coincidence, Adele is on Ghraham Norton tonight. So I am getting to know.