Beginner belly dance classes in Boston

A bunch of you have asked me about beginner classes in the Boston area--I learned today that my teacher Najmat will be offering beginner classes in Cambridge.  I highly, highly recommend her!

Five week session, starting Sunday Nov. 11
Location: Green St Studios, 185 Green St, Cambridge
Time: 1:30 PM to 2:30PM
Price: $55
For more information go to www.najmat.com

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excellent open letter to the Democratic Party in Salon:

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It's time to come clean and admit that we are a Dennis Kucinich-loving party trapped in Hillary Clinton-supporting bodies.

This is not such a joke, actually. There is no better illustration of exactly how far right political discourse has swung, and how self-loathing and beaten down the Democratic Party has become, than that among its presidential candidates, the one most willing to consistently, unapologetically stand for the things on which the party is supposedly built (some of your more basic civil liberties) is also the guy who believes in aliens.

The article makes some very valid points, I think.  Also makes me feel better about voting with my heart in the last primary and the upcoming one.  Kick me the hacky sack, dude.