Cameron's self-imposed budget flight is a drop in the ocean, while Miliband's egregious self-editing is simply annoying.
And because politics is never without purveyors of egregious, self-serving lies, the play is perpetually relevant.
His involvement was denounced as a gimmick but Geldof's knowledge of the subject is outstanding (he is in a quite different category to that egregious self-publicist Bono).
After being appointed in February, 2009, Feinberg took eighteen months to discover what we all already know: Wall Street is awash in egregious self-enrichment.
With all the crooked accounting, egregious self-dealing and insider trading these days, you'd think that corporate board members were either in cahoots with crooked executives or in a coma.
One thing that remains consistent over the last 30 years in observing America's participation in Afghanistan is that mistakes and errors of judgment, no matter how egregious or self-defeating, never seem to get corrected.
In a quickly scheduled conference call Thursday evening, CEO Jamie Dimon, who has been persistently critical of government efforts to regulate banks, said JPMorgan's trading losses were due to "egregious and self-inflicted mistakes," from trades that were "poorly executed and poorly monitored".
Probably none, except that even the most egregious act of self-promotion will be forgiven in time.
The 2004 special edition features all of 1997's awkward edits – Greedo shooting first, Han stepping on Jabba's tail – and adds even more egregious acts of self-mutilation.
Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.
"This is the result of a feeling of entitlement, flagrant disobedience of the law and disregard for moral values that was then exacerbated by egregious acts of self-preservation.
