In Case You Missed It: Video shows SPD officer kicking cooperating suspect in the face.

NW Snow Watch 2010!: Snow forces temporary closure of Snoqualmie Pass, could reach Puget Sound this weekend.

Uptown Goes Down: Lower Queen Anne cinema to close on Nov. 28.

Meanwhile in Haiti: "The Christian Motorcyclists Association came to Haiti to distribute motorcycles to pastors. Instead, angry Haitians, some of them on motorbikes, ended up attacking the 11 American missionaries when they tried to flee this city aboard a big, yellow bus," reports CNN.

Patti Smith!: Winner of the National Book Award.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski: Declares victory, disses Palin.

The "Forgotten Epidemic": Former surgeon general C. Everett Koop urges end to complacency about AIDS.

Today in Social Media: California town considers shaming drunk drivers on Facebook, China sentences woman to a year in a labor camp for a Twitter post that "disturb[ed] social stability."

Confidential to the Slog Commenter Who's Forever Urging Folks to 'Kill Their Cable': Your dreams are coming true.

Handicapable: Man in wheelchair accused of holding woman hostage.

Microfailure: India's microcredit industry faces imminent collapse over unpaid loans.

Methadon't: Tacoma mother jailed after giving 12-year-old daughter a fatal dose of methadone. (The girl wanted relief from a hurt knee, the mother wanted to help, both ended up fucked.)

And finally, happy birthday to Chloe Sevigny, the American actress I'll forever adore for her brilliant performance in Boys Don't Cry, born on this day in 1974. More recently, Sevigny's greatest achievement has been inspiring this rightly beloved parody character by Drew Droege. Enjoy.