Funny or offensive?

The Far Side, Jane Goodall, and a lesson in humor we can all take to heart

Last week, I received an inadvertently hilarious note from a (now former) paid subscriber to The Leap. Inadvertent, for them; they, I’m sure, intended it as serious rebuke. But perfectly timed and perfectly appropriate from my perspective.

You see, the reader was offended by my inclusion of a certain Gary Larson cartoon in my discussion of Asher Perlman’…