This morning I received spam from AMISH SKIN SALVE, but I misread it as AMISH SKIN SLAVE. I was thinking, “Boy, the Amish aren’t what they used to be.”

Of course it was just spam for Amish-made “chickweed healing salve,” which makes a lot more sense. This reminds me, though, of a very interesting documentary, “Devil’s Playground,” that Karen and I saw about the Amish period of rumspringa.

At 16, Amish teen-agers are allowed to live English, which means they can drink, drive, use drugs, have sex, get a job outside the community, etc. But when they come back — 90 percent do — and join the Amish church, it’s for good.

The Amish community examined in the documentary is in Indiana. It’s amazing to see how quickly the formerly sheltered Amish teens so quickly transform themselves into … white trash.