Nadine of the Pagan Pride Movement writes her local paper about how intolerant citizens of Leominster, Mass., have publicly mocked her hood/cloak garb as being Halloweeny, among other insults. Don’t they know it is “religious dress” worn on many occasions, such as “when welcoming a new member into a coven”? No, they don’t. (I know this town and its people, Nadine: a Red Sox hat is the only head gear that produces a positive response from the sad locals.) Then she channels Aretha: “All I’m asking for is respect for me and my fellow pagans who live here; I don’t think that is too much to ask.” No, it isn’t, Nadine. How soon they forget Salem. (H/t to Jim Mullaney.)