Today's SPAM™ Email

Order 82482299

Tuesday, 28 February, 2012 12:30

From: "American Airlines" <xxx@yyy>
To: chrishansenhome@xxx
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Dear Customer,

FLIGHT NUMBER AA324
ELECTRONIC 9554779
DATE & TIME / MARCH 05, 2012, 11:21 AM
ARRIVING / Yonkers
TOTAL PRICE / 227.21 USD

Please find your ticket attached.
To use your ticket you should print it.

Thank you
AA customer services.

I was unaware that Yonkers has an airport…perhaps things have changed since the late 1970's, when I went to seminary there.

A heartwarming story

Most of us aren't too thrilled with insects. Mosquitoes bite and carry disease, wasps sting, so do some bees, locusts eat our crops, ants sting too, termites eat our houses.

Most insects are pretty small—so how would you feel about a stick insect that is so huge it was nicknamed the tree lobster?

These insects, on Lord Howe Island off the coast of Australia, were all eaten by rats evacuating a crippled ship. However, all was not lost. An expedition to a relatively small pinnacle of rock near the island discovered 24 tree lobsters, 80 years after they were presumed extinct. The story of how the species was saved is a heartwarming one; compassion for all creatures, whether great or small, or ugly or beautiful, is one of the best virtues one can have.

Do watch the video of a tree lobster hatching from an egg. You'll wonder how all that insect fit into such a small egg.