There is nothing wrong with an occasional well-timed joke as a recreational outlet for addled souls, but something must be said about an environment that lulls teenagers into thinking they are entitled to launch cheap, pernicious assaults unchecked.
Most of what has been written about apologies is fundamentally manipulative, because the focus is on technique — on applying psychology to extract forgiveness from others, as in: "What do I need to say in order to get my boss/child/neighbor to trust me again?" This view of apologies is one of today's most pernicious assaults on trust.
The reality is that the majority of established unions are too ingrained in the status quo to truly defend their members against the pernicious assaults of the ruling class, and let's also not forget that, much like in the 1930s, the reason many people are disgruntled, resistant, and occupying, is that they are unemployed.
This post-hoc cut score change is a pernicious act of assault on schools, students, parents and teachers in New York State.
Sexual assault is a pernicious and formidable barrier to women in science, partly because we have consistently gifted to it our silence.
For patients the pernicious result of the TMI assault is a widespread belief that we are entitled to live in a riskless society.
This stone is one on which it has never focused, yet it is a stone beneath which lurks a pernicious, but until now unseen, assault on the gun and its right to be carried about by the citizenry.
That fateful bargain gave rise to an awkward showdown in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, as lawyers for the corporation and the Clinton administration tried to defend one of the more pernicious elements of the G.O.P.'s assault.
When challenged, many of these firms claim "diversity of thought" as their defense for being deeply un-diverse and all too often woefully ineffective when it comes to pernicious issues of workplace sexual harassment, assault and discrimination.
The Lebanese army's actions echoed those of Israel in Gaza, posing yet another pernicious question: if an Arab army is allowed to assault Palestinian civilians in pursuit of "terrorists", who can blame the Israelis for doing the same?
