By Louis Menand "Leave nothing out" is one of the perverse rules of diary-keeping.
BP operates in one of the most regulated industries on earth with some of the most perverse rules, subsidies and incentives.
And last week, there was Mr. Bush in Greenville, S.C., happily touting "our ideas, Republican ideas, conservative ideas" at Bob Jones University, which maintains its perverse rules against the mingling of races and its disgusting hostility to the Catholic religion.
This strikes at the very heart of the system, not only by using its own perverse rules against it, but critically by revealing the illusory and circular nature of debt.
The 17th Pere Ubu studio album, Lady from Shanghai, is accompanied by a lengthy primer on the album's conception and making, which employed a kind of musical "Chinese whispers": members recorded their parts in isolation, unrehearsed but according to Thomas's quite particular and faintly perverse rules, aiming for some magical, paradoxical midpoint between the written song and pure improvisation.
Increasingly, corporations are using these perverse rules to challenge energy and climate policies, including a moratorium on fracking in Quebec, a nuclear energy phaseout and coal-fired power plant standards in Germany, and a pollution cleanup in Peru.
Increasingly, corporations are using these perverse rules in trade deals to challenge energy and climate policies, including a moratorium on fracking in Quebec and a nuclear energy phase-out in Germany.
The commission concluded that the ability of the New York area's ports to compete for cargo shipments is threatened by the pervasive influence of organized-crime families and the perverse work rules the longshoremen's union has maintained.
At times, the ordinary rules were replaced by no rules or perverse ones, the report said.
The rule is perverse, because all writing is about control, and writing a diary is a way to control the day — to have, as it were, the last word.
