If turning the W.N.B.A. into a sort of basketball petri dish strikes one as perverse, such efforts are not without precedent.
"We have definitively defeated a new destabilizing aim, a new perverse, malevolent, criminal effort to sink Venezuela, sink the revolution, sink the government," Mr. Chávez told the nation today in his weekly televised call-in show.
Banning inheritance, he suggested, would lead parents to pursue perverse strategies in an effort to ensure their kids have a leg up on their neighbours' progeny.
However this method may have the perverse effect of incentivising managers to focus their efforts on raising share prices in the short-term.
Mr. Herbert finds such a portrayal "perverse" after Mr. Obama's efforts to promote a message of unity and healing, and particularly after the "great insight and empathy" of his race speech.
The British government has resisted such efforts, saying the move could prompt an exodus of talent and could have the "perverse" effect of raising fixed salaries.
Time and again, history has shown that fiscal consolidation efforts in the situation of a weak or declining economy are futile and could even have a perverse effect on actual deficits.
"Moral hazard signifies the perverse consequences of well-intentioned efforts to share the burdens of life, and it also helps deny that refusing to share those burdens is mean-spirited or self-interested".
But is it perverse that so much money and effort should be directed at creating the ideal tutu?
The book, "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of 'Psycho,' " is a fast, diverting read that, true to its title, tracks how the master of suspense, sometimes with surprising effort, made his influential, perverse shocker.
