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10 Discussion Questions for Book Clubs and Others
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel
By David Wroblewski
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Edgar Sawtelle has spent his childhood on a mid-20th-century Wisconsin farm that raises its own breed of dogs, known as "Sawtelle dogs," for private buyers. Born mute, Edgar communicates with his parents and others through sign language while raising his first litter of pups. But an air of menace seeps into his peaceful life when, in the summer of his 14th year, his father dies after a paternal uncle named Claude moves in with the family. Edgar vows to learn the truth about his father's death and, when his effort ends in another disaster, flees with three of his dogs, hiding out in the Chequamegon National Forest. The plot of this first novel by David Wroblewski has similarities to that of Hamlet, where corpses litter the stage at the end of the play. So the question is not just whether Edgar will learn how his father died but how many people — or dogs — will die by the last page.
A Note for Book Clubs:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle has 562 pages in its hardcover edition — twice as many as an average novel, which has about 250 pages — and Stephen King has said that he "spent 12 happy evenings" with the book. So it's probably safe to say that some book-group members won't finish it. If you're reading the novel for a group, you might want to deal with this issue up front — for example, by agreeing to read the book over a summer. If you lead a club, you might also want to let members know how much of the book they would need to read to get a sense of the whole. Would the prologue do it? If not, how much would members need to read?
A Key to the Hamlet Characters in The Story of Edgar Sawtelle:
Some of the humans and dogs in The Story of Edgar Sawtelle are surrogates for characters in Hamlet. The human stand-ins include: Edgar Sawtelle (Hamlet, Prince of Denmark), Trudy Sawtelle (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark and Hamlet's mother), Claude Sawtelle (Claudius, King of Denmark and Hamlet's paternal uncle), Gar Sawtelle (the late King Hamlet of Denmark and Hamlet's father), Doc Papineau (Polonius, Lord Chamberlain), and Glen Papineau, son of Doc (Laertes, son of Polonius). The canine stand-ins include Almondine (Ophelia, daughter of Polonius), Tinder and Baboo (courtiers Rosenkrantz, sometimes spelled Rosencrantz), Forte (Fortinbras) and Essay (Horatio). This is a starter list. If you see other parallels, why not mention them in the comments section on this post so that book clubs can benefit from your observations?
Questions for Discussion:
1. Early readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle characterized the novel in different ways. Publishers Weekly called it "a literary thriller." [Feb. 18, 2008] Kirkus Reviews said it was "an Odyssean journey." [April 15, 2008] Novelist Mark Doty described it as a hybrid: "both ghost story and melodrama" and "a coming-of-age tale." [Dust jacket] How would you characterize the novel?
2. The plot of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle has obvious similarities to that of Hamlet, which critics often describe as "a revenge tragedy." Would that label fit this book? Is the novel about revenge? If not, what is the novel "about"?
3. David Wroblewski told Publishers Weekly: "It was not my intention to do a literal retelling [of Hamlet]. It was more interesting to allow the stories to coincide where they could. Ghosts and haunting and poison are motifs of the Elizabethan stage." [PW Daily @ pw.com, April 14, 2008] How well does his "nonliteral" approach work?
4. For someone who didn't intend to do a "literal retelling" of Hamlet, Wroblewski lays on the parallels pretty thickly. Apart from similarities between characters, many scenes resemble those in Shakespeare's play. Near the end of the chapter entitled "The Texan," Edgar stages a demonstration of his dogs' talents that corresponds to the play-within-a-play that Hamlet believes will prove his uncle killed his father. [The chapter begins on page 311.] If you're familiar with Hamlet, what other scenes resemble those in the play?
5. Reviewers often overpraise novels that allude to great works of fiction, because the allusions can give a gloss of sophistication pop fiction or worse. If you've read the reviews for this novel, do you think that might have happened here? Did the book deserve so much praise? Or were critics perhaps too influenced by the Hamlet parallels or other factors?
6. A major challenge of writing a 562-page novel is keeping up a strong pace. Does Wroblewski do this? Did you find the pace lagging in any places? Where?
7. Wroblewski takes a risk by telling part of his story from the point of view of dogs and part from that of humans. Does the risk pay off? Would the novel have been stronger if he had stuck to the point of view of one species? [Sections told from a canine point of view include the chapters called "Almondine" that begin on page 30 and page 460.]
8. The author takes another risk by introducing paranormal elements, such as Edgar's conversation with his dead father. [Beginning on page 235 with, "He saw a man …"] Apart from reinforcing the parallels to Hamlet, what – if anything – do these scenes add to the novel? Would the book have been stronger or weaker without them?
9. Stephen King said of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, "Dog-lovers in particular will find themselves riveted by this story, because the canine world has never been explored with such imagination and emotional resonance." [Blurb.] If you love dogs, do you agree or disagree? If you disagree, what books about dogs are better? You might consider fiction such as Jack London's White Fang and nonfiction such as John Grogan's Marley and Me.
10. It's been said that all dog-lovers fall into one of two groups: those who think dogs are wonderful animals and those who think they are furry, four-footed people. Did you sense that Wroblewski falls into either camp?
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel. By David Wroblewski. Ecco, 562 pp., $25.95. Published: June 2008 www.edgarsawtelle.com
A review of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle appeared on One-Minute Book Reviews on August 28, 2008 www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/08/28. It is saved both with the August posts and in the "Novels" category on the site. The review takes the form of a parody of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy.
Janice Harayda www.janiceharayda.com is a novelist and award-winning critic who has been the book columnist for Glamour, book editor of the Plain Dealer and a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle www.bookcritics.org.
Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guides are a free alternative to publishers' guides, which are not unbiased analyses but marketing tools designed to sell books. One-Minute Book Reviews does not accept free books from editors, publishers or authors, and all reviews and guides offer an independent evaluation of books. Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guides appear frequently but not on a regular schedule. To avoid missing them, please bookmark this site or subscribe to the RSS feed.
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Movie Review of Sivaji by someone who doesn't understand a word of Tamil
For the first time in my life I saw a movie without understanding a word of what was said. But I couldn't help it. I just had to see what Sivaji and Rajni were all about. The movie is a runaway hit, and not just in India. In Britain 'Sivaji: The Boss' has apparently beat Hollywood films like the 'Fantastic Four', 'Ocean's 13' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean 3 in its opening weekend and its the first time that a Tamil film got into the UK Top 10 at No. 9. In India too the movie is a hit, inspite of the fact that people from just two states understand the languages of Tamil and Telugu. In fact in Chennai, halls are still going housefull and its difficult to get tickets. In India the movie is expected to rake in about Rs 150 crore just from ticket sales.
In Mumbai it was easy to get tickets, and in fact more than half the hall was empty. Even though I didn't understand a word and missed all the funny dialogues, it was fun watching the movie. There is a lot of action, plenty of comedy, good cinematography, excellent music and ofcourse – Rajni's style. Not to miss.
The story is not difficult to understand. Good verses evil. A foreign returned Sivaji takes on the political establishment single handedly and in the process sets up what you can almost call a parallel government, complete with swipe cards! He also spends a considerable amount of time playing loverboy, trying to woo a girl (Shriya) who is probably less than half his age. Amazing that Rajni can get away playing a 30 year old, inspite of being all of 57. He doesn't ofcourse pull it off (looking 30) but great efforts were made to achieve the illusion of youth and in some scenes Rajni does manage to look around 35.
An interesting scene is one when the girl he wants to marry taunts Sivaji about his skin colour. This prompts him to go on a mission to whiten his skin. It was hilarious to watch Sivaji take beauty treatments, all in a desperate bid to become fair. He actually succeeds, and computer trickery (apparently this took a year, 9000 frames!) created an illusion of a white Rajni. All for fun ofcourse, because the fair damsel takes one look at him and tells him that she prefers his old dark self!
Once she is won over, Sivaji is its back to bashing up the bad guys. The fight scenes portray Sivaji as a superman…the way he manages to overpower scores of goons at one go is quite unbelievable as he is not endowed with superpowers…
What jarred in the movie was the message that fairness personifies beauty. Two very dark girls are 'shown' to Sivaji by a hopeful father-in-law, and this has Sivaji running for cover. Its supposedly funny, and the treatment is much like how Hollywood portrays fat people or people with braces. As ugly wannabes.
About Rajni's acting, he isn't too bad. His role does not really call for him to show great emotion. He is an action guy and he does good…plus he has style and brilliant comic timing. The man steals the show.
True, its a masala film meant for the masses, but if such films are well made I enjoy them. Films are after all supposed to entertain…and Sivaji does that. The music ofcourse was a critical factor. AR Rahman was absolutely brilliant and I am thinking of buying the music although I don't understand the lyrics.
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Finally, its the box office which counts. And the box office has spoken. Bollywood now doesn't just Hollywood to worry about, they have to worry about Rajni as well.
Related Reading: Rajni: an Indian movie phenomena
Phantom permalinkJuly 3, 2007 3:43 pm
Nita…..i haven't seen the movie, and seeing that i dont speal Tamil…i'lll wait for it come out on DVD.
I too felt irked by the emphasis on fair skin being a precursor to beauty. It constantly amazies me how hypocritical people in the south can be…..by constantly fixating on fair skin. For a region in which almost half the population has a slightly darker complexion….it is self-demeaning and pathetic that even today this ugly fixation still exists. And the media doesnt exactly help the situation.
Prabu permalinkJuly 3, 2007 8:35 pm
Actually, I think you got it wrong about the "dark" girls in the movie. If you watch the movie carefully, there is no comment by Rajni or Vivek about the girls except Rajni saying he only likes the other girl. What happens is that the audience laughs in that split second when the girls are shown to Rajni – this is more of a commentary on what the audience feels than what message the film delivers.
I thought they treated the aspect of complexion in the movie qutie well, eg., Rajni says that he doesn't think Shriya is someone that would give importance to colour when she turns him down. Rajni tries all sorts of methods to get white but fails to and once she says that she prefers him dark, Rajni basically says that he applied flour to look fair and he failed in all methods to get fair. I thought Shankar subtly delivered a message that despite using a boat load of Fair and Lovely, one's color can't be changed. Surprised that F&L did not sue Shankar for this!
Arun permalinkJuly 4, 2007 2:12 pm
Nita, good that you liked the film even though you do not understand Tamil.
I feel Sivaji is one of the well made Rajini movies in recent times. I thoroughly enjoyed the film. Even I felt the same when the 2 dark girls appear. It was not in good taste.
Apart from that, the first half was very funny, especially when he tries to change his skin colour. And a few scenes like Vivek speaking the punch lines, before the music shop fight, Rajini standing before the train trying to commit suicide and Rajini dancing like yesteryear heroes, Sivaji and M.G.R and like Kamal Hassan etc are really funny. (it was changed suitably for the telugu version)
His style in the movie is impeccable. It is Rajini all the way in the movie. The athiradi song (sung by A.R.Rehman) is picturised beautifully and is my favourite. Every time I see that song, I'm more impressed with Rajini. And all the songs were picturised lavishly and are treat to your eyes.
On the down side I felt that in the opening number, Rajini was not able to cope with the fast tunes. And the fights (especially the last one) could have been a bit realistic. But nobody cares, it has Rajini in it, which is sufficient for his fans.
rohit permalinkJuly 10, 2007 7:27 pm
sivaji is an excellent movie which should be accepted by every one,since he is the hero in real life also ,doing lot of service to poor people.You would know it if you peep into his life.
I question every one who else is doing so?
July 10, 2007 9:38 pm
The movie really rocks, i have seen it and enjoyed it.. Your review is really crisp and to the point.. By the way don't miss the song title song 'Style' its really cool.. enjoy it here http://onlyhits.blogspot.com/2007/06/style-sivaji.html . Rajni too has acted very good..
Manjula permalinkJuly 11, 2007 2:51 pm
Even, I was wondering about the treatment of 'fair' skin in the movie. I like the fact that Shankar has established that being dark does not matter -(for the guys that is) But cud you please do something for us girls as well?
Actually in tamil nadu.. It's considered macho for the men to look dark. But for women it's an entirely different affair. Fair=feminine, The heroine has to be fair because it is so deeply embedded in the public (Tamil nadu) mind that fair is an ideal quality for being feminine. But the issue is not as black and white as you may assume. But the fact that 90% of the population in dark is not ignored. Dark women are considered to be stronger. Dark women can be beauiful as well only they'd be considered not as 'feminine' as a fair woman. I thought the director seemed confused himself about how to present the 2 dark girls. Because he wasn't telling us exactly what he was trying to say.. Dialogues from that scene in english
-The Father proudly tells sivaji that his daughters have 2 beautiful names, angavai and sangavai.
(vivek takes a dig at their complexion and says-('pongavai'-chutinga)- did you let them boil for too long (that they turned so dark).
But at the same time he turns to Sivaji and asks him" IF the girls are alright for him?-like he cudn't see anything wrong with them otherwise.
Sivaji says he'd prefer the other girl (becos he's already fallen for her)
I think the director made the girls darker becos making them really black excludes a huge percentage of tamil girls. If ppl in the north of India consider all tamilians to be dark ppl within tamil nadu differentiate themselves according to how dark or light they are. And with women using fair and lovely in abundunce it's not difficult to avoid the complexon of the 2 girls.–is wat I think.
–Waiting for a movie with a heroine who's complexion matches the dark hero's.
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Deterring Divorce through Major League Baseball?
Posted by The Situationist Staff on April 23, 2009
BusinessWeek has an engaging piece on a new study from the University of Denver Center for Marital and Family Studies which finds that cities with major league baseball teams have a 28% lower divorce rate than other cities. We excerpt the piece below.
The family unit is society's fundamental unit—95 percentage of US citizens marry by age 55. A marriage breakdown is one of the most stressful life events possible, yet more than one in three will experience the trauma of divorce. Not surprisingly, the dynamics of relationships are increasingly the focus of ever more research. The University of Denver Center for Marital and Family Studies in particular is constantly shedding new light on the institution of marriage with recent research findings establishing that the quality of the relationship with parents-in-law is directly connected to marital satisfaction, and more recently, that 90 percent of couples experience a decrease in marital satisfaction once their first child is born.
A new study from the centre looking at divorce rates before and after cities got Major League Baseball teams is fascinating in its implications. The study showed that cities with major league baseball teams had a 28 percent lower divorce rate than cities that wanted major league baseball teams. Can marital harmony really be this simple?
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University of Denver (DU) director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies, psychology professor Howard Markman also studied divorce rates in other cities that welcomed a major league team and found a 30 percent decline in divorces in Phoenix, a 30 percent drop in Miami and a 17 percent drop in Tampa Bay area. While there could be many explanations for this significant difference, Markman stresses the importance of fun and friendship in a healthy marriage. Going to baseball games is one way couples can have fun together and talk as friends.
For the rest of the piece, click here. For related Situationist posts on the apparent power of Major League Baseball, see Jon Hanson and Michael McCann's Attributing Blame: From the Baseball Diamond to the War on Terror and The Competitive Situation of Youth Baseball and Softball.
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November 01, 2009
A version of this article appears in the November/December 2009 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
March 12, 2009, will be remembered as one of the greatest days in the history of the home performance industry. On that day, Vice President Joseph Biden and Energy Secretary Stephen Chu detailed an investment of nearly $8 billion in state and local weatherization and energy efficiency efforts as part of ARRA—$5 billion through the Weatherization Assistance program (WAP) and $3 billion for the State Energy program. With an average of $6,500 invested per house, the goal is to weatherize a million low-income homes in the next year and provide incentives to improve the energy efficiency of other homes. The greatest hurdle to meeting this goal is making sure that each and every single one of those homes is given the full and proper house-as-system treatment by trained professionals. We need an army to get it done, and get it done right.
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BPI Stands Up
It won't surprise many Home Energy readers to learn that much of the pressure to fill the home performance workforce gap has fallen on BPI. As a nationally recognized standards development and contractor-credentialing organization for residential energy efficiency retrofit work, we are being called upon to recruit and train the required army of home performance professionals.
As of September 2009, BPI-certified professionals played key roles in the WAP programs in 9 states (in some cases, BPI certification is required by the program). Similar involvement is pending in another 12 states. This represents over $2.3 billion of the $5 billion in ARRA funding for weatherization. Table 1 provides an overview of the state WAP programs that BPI-certified professionals are deeply involved in, and those for which BPI involvement is pending.
In addition, EPA's Home Performance with Energy Star (HPwES) program is active in 22 states. Thirteen of the program sponsors have chosen to use individuals or companies with BPI credentials, and a similar decision is pending in another three states.
Maryland, for Example
Therefore, one of the greatest tasks ahead of us is creating the training infrastructure needed for the ramp-up demands in each jurisdiction (see "The President Said 'Weatherization' on TV," HE, July/Aug '09, p. 20). In many cases this requires coordination and agreement between the state WAP administrators and the HPwES program sponsors. Perhaps the most successful example of this kind of teamwork so far is Maryland.
Recognizing the need to expand their workforce as rapidly as possible, the Department of Housing and Community Development (WAP administrator) and the Maryland Energy Authority (HPwES sponsor) joined forces to specify BPI certification for all the energy auditors working under both programs. To provide the training infrastructure, the plan is to have all 16 community colleges in the state offer home performance training and BPI certification examinations in the future. The first meeting between the two agencies to develop this plan occurred on February 25, 2009—eight days after President Obama signed ARRA into law—and the first class of home performance hopefuls began training on July 6, 2009.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) developed this model years ago with great success, and it was used to speed deployment in Maryland by licensing the curriculum used in New York's community colleges to the Maryland schools. Several other states, including Kentucky, are now watching closely to gauge the success of the collaboration, and we expect the path used in Maryland to be repeated several times over in 2010.
Outside of formalized models like the ones in Maryland and New York, where training and certification take place through community colleges, the demand for BPI training is growing at an exponential rate. At the start of 2009, we had about 70 BPI training affiliate organizations. By September 1, 2009, we had 121, with 116 more in the process of becoming affiliates, and new inquiries coming in daily. Much of the interest is in states where we did not have a presence before, such as Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, and even Hawaii.
Another strong indication of the increased interest in home performance was the record turnout at the National Weatherization Conference in Indianapolis, held July 20–23, 2009. While the conference sponsors expected 1,800 attendees, 3,200 people walked through the doors—representing the largest group ever assembled under the Weatherization banner! At this event, Gil Sperling, Weatherization Program Manager for DOE, announced that the five U.S. territories—American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—had officially become part of the national weatherization network.
BPI and weatherization have a long history. The BPI training affiliate network began taking shape approximately eight years ago, with five weatherization-based training centers across the country. These centers had already been providing comprehensive training to weatherization staff for many years, but after a review of their programs, BPI found that the training facilities and curriculum aligned with BPI standards. This allowed the individuals being trained by the weatherization-based centers to hold what is now a nationally recognized credential—applicable equally to WAP programs and market value incentive programs.
The BPI mission, standards, and policies were born out of the need to raise the bar across the board for all parties that participate in the assessment of homes, the development of comprehensive work scopes, the implementation and installation of solutions for homes across the country, and consumer education. New York State and national WAP representatives, policymakers, contractors, and consumers came together to grow our own staff, develop recognized credentials for home performance professionals, and provide a critical service to consumers across the country: the realization of safe, affordable, comfortable homes.
But as the saying goes, with great opportunity comes risk. The dollar amounts being allocated will attract some people to the home performance community for the wrong reasons. Yes, we need to build an army to get the job done, but that army cannot be made up of those simply looking to make a fast buck—the ones who don't know and don't care if they create a mold problem, or what might happen if they don't account for combustion appliance backdrafting.
We at BPI will continue to work with the WAP administrators and state energy offices to educate them, persuade them, and collaborate with them to build sustainable training infrastructures as part of the ARRA-funded ramp-up activities. We call upon you, the veterans in the home performance army, to support us in this quest by continuing the kind of quality home performance contracting that deserves billions of dollars in funding, by letting more and more people know about it, and by encouraging other building professionals and young people new to the field to join us in this good work.
The year 2009 was just the beginning of this amazing journey. Next year will see even more activity and more opportunity. Watch for updates in Home Energy in 2010.
Larry Zarker is the CEO of the Building Performance Institute (BPI), an independent, not-for-profit organization committed to the improvement of home performance via training, certification, accreditation, and quality assurance programs for residential contractors and their customers. BPI works with building performance industry stakeholders to ensure that the professional bar for excellence in building performance contracting is established and maintained by creating and regularly updating technical requirements through an open, transparent, consensus-based development process. Prior to joining BPI, Larry worked for nearly 20 years with the National Association of Home Builders Research Center.
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Jimmie Johnson turns heat up on Brad Keselowski
HOMESTEAD - Jimmie Johnson is the king of mind games - he doesn't fall victim to them - and he's got five trophies as proof.
He doesn't let the pressure rattle him, and as a veteran of seven championship finales he knows how hard it can be to tune out the noise surrounding the title-deciding race. So Johnson was more than willing to poke, prod and remind Brad Keselowski just what's at stake at Homestead-Miami Speedway this weekend.
Keselowski takes a 20-point lead over Johnson into Sunday's finale, and needs only to finish 15th or better to win his first Sprint Cup title. It would give team owner Roger Penske his first championship at NASCAR's top level in 29 years of competition.
So Johnson opened Thursday's championship contenders' news conference by referencing this season's IndyCar championship, where Penske driver Will Power took a 17-point lead into the finale but crashed early and coughed away the title.
"It seemed like it was a lay-up race, and things can happen," Johnson said.
Then he talked about the foolishness in assuming Keselowski will roll to a 15th-place finish Sunday and clinch the title.
"This garage area is tough, the weight of the race, I don't care who you are, it'll show up at some point in time and thoughts will run through your head and with all that being said, a 15th-place finish is not a lay-up for these guys," Johnson said. "I have a little bit of stock in that. We'll see how they respond."
Keselowski sat square-jawed looking straight ahead, seemingly tuning out the attempt to get inside his head. The 28-year-old knows drivers have fallen victim to these games before, and has insisted during the entire 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship he wouldn't repeat their mistakes.
A nervous Denny Hamlin sat between Johnson and Kevin Harvick two years ago, his legs shaking under the stage as his rivals lobbed barbs at him for almost an hour. Hamlin completed his collapse three days later, when Johnson rallied to win his fifth title.
Last season, Tony Stewart charmed his way through the news conference at an un-amused Carl Edwards' expense. Stewart then snatched the championship away on a tie-breaker by winning the finale.
So Keselowski knew exactly what Johnson was up to on Thursday.
"Certainly, he's trying to apply pressure," Keselowski said with a smirk. "Certainly, I don't feel any."
Keselowski has talked at length of late about the pressure he's felt in his life. He came to Homestead in the Truck Series in 2004 and failed to make the race. In 2006, his family's race team went broke trying to get him to the track. When he finally got his big break, at Chicagoland in the Nationwide Series with JR Motorsports in 2007, team owner Dale Earnhardt Jr. sent him out on a track he'd never seen before, telling him if he wrecked the car he wouldn't get a chance to drive it next week.
"Now that was pressure," Keselowski said. "Moments like that make this seem not so bad, and they also build up a level of confidence where I feel like this is quite a bit easier than those moments."
Keselowski won six races for Earnhardt before moving on to Penske Racing and a Sprint Cup Series ride, and with a month to go in the season, Earnhardt predicted Keselowski would hang with Johnson all the way until the end."I don't think he's going to crack. I think he's going to be hard to beat," Earnhardt said. "I think he will be a tough competitor all the way through. Brad has been waiting on this opportunity all his life so I don't expect him to crack under the pressure."
Keselowski opened the Chase with a win at Chicago and picked up another victory at Dover to take control of the championship fight, but Johnson used consecutive wins at Martinsville and Texas to take a seven-point lead into Phoenix last weekend. A blown tire there caused Johnson to crash, and now Keselowski has a nice cushion that's certainly giving him some peace of mind.
Johnson said the weekend is young.
"He may be very comfortable and calm now, it may not happen until he's in the car, but at some point that magnitude hits," Johnson said. "I've lived through it five times. That's a turning moment, and we'll see how he responds. This just isn't any other race. This is the championship race, and there's a lot that comes with that."
Keselowski insists he wouldn't have it any other way.


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TJ Leyden tells Anderson Cooper how the suspect in the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, attack used music to spread hate.
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I am MUCH more fearful of domestic terrorism than I am of foreign. The haters seem to be screaming ever louder, most likely because their way of thinking is dying. As long as certain segments of our society continue to demonize "the other", these kinds of events are going to continue to happen. A big irony in all this is that these people think they're the biggest patriots of all when, in fact, they are the most un-American.
The Concept Of "Us & Them" is the Root Of All Conflict.
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I heard TJ speak at the Simon Weisenthal Center in L.A, back in the late 90's. I believe he is completely sincere in his reformation. I knew the Sikh Temple shooter had zero idea he was shooting at some of the most peaceful people on earth when he fired upon them. My thoughts and prayers today are for the victims and thier families. If we are going to fight a "war on terror", perhaps we should work at eradicating it from within the borders of our country first...
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March 28th, 2011
Gingrich fears 'atheist country ... dominated by radical Islamists'
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor
Hours after declaring Sunday that he expects to be running for president within a month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he's worried the United States could be "a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists," in the foreseeable future, according to Politico.
Gingrich was addressing Cornerstone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, led by the Rev. John Hagee, an influential leader among American evangelicals. Hagee's endorsement of then-presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 was plagued by controversy.
McCain ultimately rejected the endorsement over remarks Hagee had made about the Holocaust, in which he appeared to say that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God's will by hastening the desire of Jews to return to Israel, in accordance with biblical prophecy.
"God says in Jeremiah 16: 'Behold, I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave to their fathers. ... Behold, I will send for many fishers, and after will I send for many hunters. And they the hunters shall hunt them.' That would be the Jews," Hagee had said in an earlier sermon.
"Then God sent a hunter," his sermon continued. "A hunter is someone who comes with a gun, and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter."
McCain rejected Hagee's endorsement of his campaign after learning about the comments in May 2008. "Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them," McCain said at the time.
Hagee then withdrew his endorsement of the Arizona senator, which he had offered three months earlier.
One irony of McCain rejecting Hagee's endorsement over his Holocaust remarks is that the Texas evangelist leads the Christian Zionist movement. Hagee is founder and national chairman of Christians United for Israel, which features Elie Wiesel and other Holocaust survivors at its events.
Here's what Gingrich said at Cornerstone Church on Sunday evening, according to Politico:
Gingrich's church appearance comes amid a broader campaign to court religious conservatives.
On Monday, Hagee released a statement praising Gingrich's appearance at Cornerstone. "It was such a great honor to welcome Mr. Gingrich to our church, and hear him describe the centrality of faith in our nation," he said.
The statement also included praise for Hagee and his wife, Diana, from Gingrich.
"It was truly an honor to be with John and Diana at Cornerstone," Gingrich said. "Their dedication to serve is inspirational."
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