This x That

This x That:

Know This:

• Occupy Wall Street: Pepper-spraying cop John Pike awarded in 2006 for not using pepper spray; $29,000 OWS field trip to Egypt canceled; OWS spokescouncil votes to post protester’s $25,000 bail; Chinese artist Ai Weiwei calls OWS “hopeless,” “primitive,” and “lacking of content.”

• Mitt Romney blatantly lies about President Obama in first paid ad, has tables turned on him by ThinkProgress; In latest GOP debate gaffe, Romney “flip flops” on his first name.

• Oregon’s governor halts all executions in the state, calls death penalty “a perversion of justice.”

• Afghan court finds rape victim guilty of adultery, sentences her to 12 years in prison.

• RIP: Andrea True, “More More More” singer, dead at 68. Also: legendary jazz drummer Paul Motian, at 80.

Read This:

• Hurricane Kenneth becomes Category 4 storm — strongest ever in eastern North Pacific for this time of year.

• USC’s Annenberg School study finds that Hollywood is sexist.

• Footage of Breaking Dawn sex scene with “extra thrusting” might be added to the film’s DVD.

Look At This:

• The Umbrella Man: Errol Morris op-doc on the fascinating story of mysterious umbrella’d figure seen near JFK’s motorcade on the day of his assassination 48 years ago.

The Other:

• NewsFeed: Airlines Segregating Tots in ‘Baby Ghettos’ (To Some Other Passengers’ Delight).

• Tea x Time List: 7 Ways Your Cellphone Is Screwing With Your Body and Mind.

• Above: Christoph Niemann‘s clever “Promised Land” covers The New Yorker‘s Thanksgiving issue.