But the story of the 1913 Open is so engaging that it defies even Frost's more egregious efforts to get in its way.
Lucy A. Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, suggested that the investigation was one of several "really egregious" efforts by the Bush administration to limit press freedoms by intimidating reporters and their sources.
When we last left retail giant Amazon and publishing giant Hachette, the companies were at an impasse over contract negotiations, resulting in some of the most egregious efforts by Amazon to bury Hachette's titles by slowing down shipment, raising prices, and even refusing to sell certain books entirely.
One conservative tweeter, called UTHornsRawk, was responsible for some of the more egregious Photoshopped efforts: UTHornsRawk did not respond to a request for comment.
Every year around the holidays, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, confers its Ebenezer Award for the most egregious and absurd effort to expel faith from the public square.
Most egregious, Mr. Bush has resisted efforts to allow bankrupt homeowners to have their mortgages modified under court protection, parroting the mortgage industry's overwrought objections to what is arguably the best way to avoid preventable foreclosures.
Mr. Stewart said that meant it not only surpassed such egregious American historic legal efforts as slavery and Jim Crow, but also worldwide outrages like "the Nuremberg Laws, the Spanish Inquisition and prima nocta, the medieval law where on your wedding night the king gets to sleep with your wife".
These are all well-intentioned efforts to end unjustified, egregious compensation packages and ensure that they do not lead to excessive risk-taking.
