The Management would like to thank Molly Erdman and director Brian Shortall for sparing us the trouble of thinking last night, because we had fucked-up shit to do for clients with impossible deadlines.

[via Weigel]

“I would call upon Gov. Perry to repudiate the sentiment and the comments made by that pastor,” Romney told reporters just hours before the pair are scheduled to meet in another presidential debate. “Governor Perry said that introduction hit it out of the park,” Romney added. “I don’t believe that that kind of divisiveness based on religion has a place in this country.” [TPM]

New York:

Community groups and progressive organizations that have been working with the broader Occupy Wall Street movement marched on Tuesday to the homes of JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire David Koch, hedge fund honcho John Paulson, Howard Milstein, and News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch.

Washington:

Capitol Police moved swiftly to stop protesters unfurling banners at a U.S. Senate office building in Washington, D.C.

Protesters gained entrance to the Hart Senate office building’s atrium and dropped two banners, one reading “End War Now” and the other “People for the People.”

Yeah, so, um, comrades… You know how we Decent Common Folk got all upset over teabagger protests spilling over into uncomfortable confrontations? Yeah. That.

[photo via Sully]

Pawlenty, portrait, both emerge into limelight [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]

When Timmah! quit the preznidential race, his video editor was cast adrift. Happily, a too-kind Texas governor took pity on the lad, and let the kid rake some leaves clips.

We’re being told by Prominent Bloggers that this feels more “powerful” than our auteur’s previous work. We actually think it’s a step down, because casting Tim Pawlenty as a World-Historical Figure had its own meta scrumptiousness. This just feels like, y’know, trying too hard.

Our guest columnist is Murray Evans of the Huffington Post.

Nine-year-old Lauren Hummingbird wants a cell phone for Christmas – and not just any old phone, but an iPhone. Such a request normally would be met with skepticism by her father, Cherokee Nation employee Jamie Hummingbird.

He could dismiss the obvious reasons a kid might want an iPhone, except for this – he’s a proud Cherokee and buying his daughter the phone just might help keep the tribe’s language alive.

Nearly two centuries after a blacksmith named Sequoyah converted Cherokee into its own unique written form, the tribe has worked with Apple to develop Cherokee language software for the iPhone, iPod and – soon – the iPad. Computers used by students – including Lauren – at the tribe’s language immersion school already allow them to type using Cherokee characters.

After Stinquer Redmanlaw brought this to our attention Friday, we looked into the “international keyboards” offered on our iPad. Yup. There it is.

Apple Teams Up To Use iPhone To Save Cherokee Language [HuffPo, 10/23/2010]

Cherokee Artist Roy Boney Jr. Reflects on Steve Jobs [Indian Country Today, via RML]